Article: The AI Image, the Dream, and the Statistical Unconscious
| dc.creator | Schröter, Jens | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-14T11:09:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-06-14T11:09:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | As has been remarked several times in the recent past, the images generated by AI systems like DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, or Midjourney have a certain surrealist quality. In the present essay I want to analyze the dreamlike quality of (at least some) AI-generated images. This dreaminess is related to Freud’s com- parison of the mechanism of condensation in dreams with Galton’s composite photography, which he reflected explicitly with regard to statistics – which are also a basis of today’s AI images. The superimposition of images results at the same time in generalized images of an uncanny sameness and in a certain blurriness. Does the fascination of (at least some) AI-generated images result in their relation to a kind of statistical unconscious? | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22315 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23760 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Herbert von Halem | |
| dc.publisher.place | Köln | |
| dc.relation.isPartOf | issn:1614-0885 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | AI-generated images | en |
| dc.subject | statistics | en |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:700 | |
| dc.title | The AI Image, the Dream, and the Statistical Unconscious | en |
| dc.type | article | |
| dc.type.status | publishedVersion | |
| dspace.entity.type | Article | |
| local.coverpage | 2024-06-16T03:13:30 | |
| local.source.epage | 120 | |
| local.source.issue | 1 | |
| local.source.issueTitle | Generative Imagery: Towards a ‘New Paradigm’ of Machine Learning-Based Image Production | |
| local.source.spage | 112 | |
| local.source.volume | 19 |
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