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GPTSD - The Human / Machine Feedback Loop (Dreamer 64)

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Description

Can trauma transfer from human to machine to human?   GPT: Generative Pre-trained Transformer is an open-source neural network (machine learning) model trained on internet data to generate new unique text.  PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental disorder that can develop after a person is exposed to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, or other threats.  This series of text and images function as an exploratory case study that magnifies the risks of transferring human bias and trauma to machine learning models. The output of these models can affect humans by reinforcing unintended inputs (positive or negative). These models can be distributed through social media or manifest in law-making, credit applications, education and other ways we may not yet understand. A feedback loop: we are what we consume—and we consume what we are.   The following generated GPTSD machine dream texts and images were all output in one session (Dec 2020) after training on 593 dream diary entries by an individual suffering from PTSD after experiencing war. These dream descriptions were cropped directly from a larger text and intentionally unedited except for a few minor deletions for clarity. ~~~ In my dream: Semi-automatic, the Glock 17 is handed to me by a man in a dark suit. He tells me it’s for me. Well, maybe not for me. The Glock is too big for me. The hammer is made of too many pieces of metal, and is mostly made of pure alpha and the sub-atomic particles zeros and ones. I hold the gun upside down, and place it right next to my Omics, which are transparent and burn when hit by high voltage. The Omics fire a laser beam that causes me a fraction of a second of pain. The laser light strikes the bottom of the hammer and sparks fly. This all takes place in slow motion. Then all of a sudden I am in a war, in which a group of high ranking military men are being pursued by several individuals who appear to be ninjas. The individuals who appear to be ninjas fly down from the sky and quickly begin to shoot at the pursuing soldiers. ~~~  The GPTSD book and website will have further information about this project. ryanthompson.name/project-gptsd  Humans become the stories in which we tell ourselves—and our machines. The tools we create, always manifest the people we come to be.   Dreamer 64 (Text Skeleton) 1800 x 2280 pixels Ryan Thompson - December 2020  [Once all Dreamers have been collected a second artwork related to the “Text Skeleton” will be airdropped to the collector holding this work]