Artificial Intimacy, 2022
Video (Chat GPT-3)
Mirabelle Jones is an interdisciplinary artist interested in interactive technologies and immersive storytelling. Based in Denmark, they are a PhD candidate in the Human-Centered Computing Section of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. Their video, Artificial Intimacy, is an exploration of bias and diversity in AI chatbots. Programs such as ChatGPT are well-known for their inherent prejudice, often making conclusions rooted in the sexist, racist, or homophobic opinions of their human creators. To challenge this, Jones trained a chatbot entirely on marginalized perspectives using the social media content of two queer individuals. Leslie Foster (a queer, black, bisexual artist) and Gorjeoux Moon (a trans, non-binary, femme poet) then had the opportunity to interview the chatbot version of themselves. The resulting videos offer an insightful look into artificial intelligence technologies when they are trained from a diverse standpoint. As the artist asserts: “If our goal is to create chatbots that are increasingly human-like, how can we ensure that chatbot technologies bear the personalities, traits, values, and identities that are representative of the rich diversity of human beings and do not replicate stereotypes or under-represent communities?”
Artist Bio
Mirabelle Jones is a queer, non-binary creative technologist, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher based in Copenhagen critically investigating creative practices in technology. Their work explores the immersive storytelling potential of sensors, spatialized sound, LEDs, animatronics, XR, wearables, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, deep fake, and computer vision. They are a PhD candidate at The University of Copenhagen in the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) within the Human-Centered Computing section and possess an M.F.A. in Book Art & Creative Writing from Mills College and a BA in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. Their works have most recently been featured at the Harvard Art Museum, Catch: Center for Art, Design, and Technology, ATA Gallery, the Museum Meermanno and the Center for Performance Research and appear in several collections including the One National Gay & Lesbian Archives and the Center on Contemporary Art’s historic Hear Our Voice collection. Their performances and visual works have been heralded by the Huffington Post, ArtNet, Ms. Magazine, Ingeniøren, Bustle, ATTN, Refinery29, Inquisitr, Mic., Sleek Magazine, Feminist Magazine, Deutsche Welle, Google News, Yahoo News, PBS, Berliner Zeitung and elsewhere. MirabelleJones.com
Mirabelle Jones on On their journey with AI in the legacy of their creative practice:
“I grew up with an interest in engineering because of my father and storytelling because of my mother. Making my first website at 11, I was fascinated by code and the democratic potential of the web. As I grew older, I started to play with sensors, microcontrollers and eventually AI. AI has opened up new doors for me for storytelling and exploring our relation to data through participatory art. My recent work uses deep fake, computer vision, natural language processing, chatbots, social media, and more to explore the present ways we relate to data using AI and what we would like those relationships to look like in the future.”