Behold these Glorious Times! (producing training data)

Brief description

In the video we see a collage of numerous training data sets used to train machines to see.
The video reveals the often hidden labour that goes into collecting and constructing training datasets. Performing movements or expressions, recording objects. It reveals how our everyday lives are captured and categorized. It also reveals that training sets are sometimes produced other times collected without consent. The video also visualizes how the machine gradually learns to recognize pixels, shapes, features...etc. 

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
Behold these Glorious Times! Art, Video art Trevor Paglen
Aesthetic characteristics
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.

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