On collective creativity & AI, speculative design, and emergent aesthetics
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In conversation with Ziv Epstein, computational social scientist and researcher at MIT Media Lab.
Ziv Epstein is a computational social scientist, researcher, and designer. A final-year Ph.D. Candidate at the MIT Media Lab, he’s obsessed with the digital infrastructure supporting human interaction online. His work is both playful and critical: he is hopeful about new, creative AI tools and concerned with issues like mis/disinformation. Some of Ziv’s recent work with generative AI include: using image generators to collectively explore speculative futures, hybrid animals synthesized using GAN (general adversarial network), and sculptures inspired by Stable Diffusion. In our interview, we…
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