Artificial intelligence, vampirism and the black box: speculative approach within the machine learning (ML) framework

Abstract

The creative relationships between human and machine based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) models are experiencing unprecedented growth among users, as well as new artistic modalities that find in this technology an expressive means to explore and investigate. This article takes as a case study the vAImpir project, an artistic production and research where AI becomes a technological medium, but which also becomes a space for reflection to address new narratives in a poetic background that speculates on the nature of AI. The aim is to identify a conceptual framework that can contextualize vAImpir in its immersion in machine learning (ML) processes as an engine for creating new interrelationships, between the experiential substrate of artistic production and the contemporary reinterpretation of concepts such as ready-made and deconstruction. A posthumanist approach that allows us to speculate on possible futures through artistic practice, with and about AI, to provide a particular vision to a complex scenario in which collaboration between algorithms and humans is a cultural and anthropological necessity.