Скачать или смотреть Decoding AI Digital Artifacts – Hidden Text and Latent Errors in Generative Image | Forensics Study

This short #AIimagery study examines the #digitalartifacts and latent hallucinations embedded in #generative models, a recurring subject in Alex Boya’s Genomic Animation research at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The reel captures a fragment of AI-generated visual data containing synthetic handwriting—an emblematic mark of latent instability within diffusion-based architectures.

Through a #visualforensics lens, this exploration situates machine-generated text as an aesthetic byproduct of latent-space cognition, bridging media archaeology and #computervision with animation studies. The illegible symbols evoke automatic writing, surrealist chance operations, and psychographic patterning, creating a continuity between historical image mysticism and contemporary algorithmic hallucination.

This clip forms part of Boya’s #GenomicAnimation inquiry, which treats AI outputs not as finalized artworks but as data fossils — fragments within a database storytelling ecology that informs Walking Bread and its broader posthuman mythos. The imagery serves as pedagogical material for #AIliteracy, #criticalmedia, and #hybridart education, encouraging viewers to interpret these marks as signs of the machine unconscious.

Institutional support from #Wacom, #Adobe, #UNESCO, and #MILA ensures this research remains accessible to traditional animators, positioning AIadjacent inquiry within ethical, transparent, and interdisciplinary creative frameworks.

This was exploration, but the final film currently in festivals ultimately had no AI, and Alex’s laboratory is adjacent research so that traditional animators have a place in the conversation.

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