“a man eating sushi”

“a man eating sushi”

This simple sentence is meant to conjure benign images of men sitting alone, dining on varied plates of nigiri sushi. What would this scene look like in the mind’s eye?

The images in “a man eating sushi” are made by an Artificial Intelligence program which performs a text-to-image process. The text “a man eating sushi” is input into the program and the computer draws a picture of what it thinks that sentence looks like. The AI program is trained on a database of 60 million photographs and their associated captions taken from the internet.

The images in “a man eating sushi” represent a computational attempt to construct a reality based on content drawn from the internet.

The AI program used to create this series is a combination of the algorithms Dall-e, VQGAN, and Clip-Guided Diffusion. The source code and database are by Jack000.