An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek.

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 Everything you hear is fully generated by a machine. The opinions and beliefs expressed do not represent anyone. They are the hallucinations of a slab of silicon.

it's cheap and easy to produce AI-generated content that is superficially good and surprisingly similar to "the real thing". This applies to videos resembling celebrities (commonly known as Deepfakes) or, as in the case of the Infinite Conversation, speech.

This project aims to raise awareness about the ease of using tools for synthesizing a real voice. Right now, any motivated fool can do this with a laptop in their bedroom. This changes our relationship with the media we consume online and raises questions about the importance of authoritative sources, breach of trust and gullibility.

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What is this?

A never-ending conversation between Bavarian director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. When you open this website, you are taken to a random point in the dialogue. Every day a new segment of the conversation is added. New segments can be generated at a faster speed than what it takes to listen to them. In theory, this conversation could continue until the end of time.

 

 

 

 

Nov. 25, 2023


Why did you do this?

For three reasons: 1) because I could; 2) as an awareness campaign over the powers of machine learning applied unscrupulously, as you can read on the about page; 3) as a love letter to Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek, their brilliant ideas and their idiosyncratic speech. Neither gave explicit consent for this project.

Nov. 25, 2023


Why don't the drawings look more like the person?

For the same reason the voices do not sound 100% like the real thing. They are generated by large statistical models that, despite being very impressive, are not perfect.

Nov. 25, 2023


Isn't it bad to use someone's voice and have them say things they haven't?

Yes.

Nov. 25, 2023