“When we started, CLIP already had an idea of who I am. It’s hard to exist online without being swept up into a training set.”
– American composer, musician, and sound artist
Holly Herndon, on creating her recent NFT collection of self-portraits,
CLASSIFIED, that were assembled feeding OpenAI’s neural network
CLIP a series of custom prompts. “Artificial intelligence is inherently communal,” says Herndon, “and we’ve all contributed to it through participating in humanity.”