One Future Fits All: Text-to-image AI and the Narrowing of Global Imagination
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS University of London
- Room
- G50 (Main Building, Ground Floor)
About this event
Speakers: Dr Stephanie Diepeveen (KCL) and Dr Somnath Batabyal (SOAS)
Abstract
This event draws on the results of a collaborative exploratory study of image-based outputs of text-to-image generation in 15 languages and concerning 12 countries, and interrogates the gaze of generative AI models, and how scholars can indirectly study their opaque operations.
Speakers
- Stephanie Diepeveen’s research sits at the intersection of power, digital infrastructure and spaces. Her interests span both the (geo)politics of digital infrastructure, and possibilities of relations and spaces that emerge through their development and use. She is particularly interested in perspectives and experiences within and from the Global South. Stephanie is currently co-investigator on an ESRC large grant on language, conflict and conflict resolution in Africa, a four-year interdisciplinary project led by the University of Essex.
- Somnath Batabyal is the Co-Director of the Centre for AI Futures and coordinated this research at SOAS.
Image: Igor Omilaev (Unsplash)
