THE PEAR, YOU & AI

AI MIS-PEAR-CEPTIONS AND OTHER VISIONS OF US

The Pear, You and AI is a women-led collaborative annotation initiative, designed as part of a larger project on Algorithmic Art to Counter Gender Bias in AI. In this initial phase, we are undergoing data collection based on your words and perceptions associated with words like women, beauty, imperfection. In a second phase, we will use these data to create digital art, along with an interactive, immersive art installation. Your words will help inspire and create art projects, inform research that improves both AI design practices and digital literacy, and engage citizens on critical issues of digital democracies. By supporting this initiative, you are contributing to a process that facilitates inclusive and equitable Digital Futures.

This project started when Valentine Goddard, AI ethics and human rights advocate, asked an AI-based image-generator to show her what the words women, beauty and imperfection looked like. Since the output of the system was a “pear”, she decided to research the reasons underlying that result, and use algorithmic art to counter gender bias encountered in AI.

Help by telling us what the following words mean to you: WOMEN, BEAUTY, IMPERFECTION.

Together, let’s change AI’s MIS-PEAR-CEPTIONS and include OTHER VISIONS OF US.

Nous aurions, et nous espérons, pouvoir réaliser ce projet en français aussi. Il y a 2 raisons pour lesquelles nous ne pouvions pas le lancer simultanément dans les 2 langues officielles du Canada. Tout d’abord, les bases de données annotées actuelles ne contiennent pas assez de mots en français pour générer des images avec l’IA. Même en anglais le résultat n’est pas parfait, et inclus des biais de genre mais aussi culturelles, politiques et autres. Avec la plateforme Runway ML, vous pouvez entrer des mots en français mais la résultante sera souvent une image toute noire. Par conséquent, et c’est la 2e raison, mener ce type de projet en français nécessiterait des ressources que nous n’avons pas présentement. Notre organisme fonctionne avec très peu de financement et un soutien bénévole ponctuel. Nous vous remercions pour votre compréhension.

N’hésitez pas à nous laisser votre courriel dans la section prévu à cet effet afin que nous puissions vous informer des développement à venir. Qui sait, peut-être trouverons nous un soutien financier pour assurer la réalisation de projets en art algorithmiques en éthique de l’IA en français.

Try turning adjectives into nouns, or close your eyes and tell us what image comes to mind when you read each word. You can learn more about how machines understand language in the FAQ section.

AI doesn't understand adjectives, please use nouns .

Give us 3 nouns or less that express what it feels like, to you, to be a woman, identify as a woman or as a fluid being embracing elements of femininity.

Try turning adjectives into nouns, or close your eyes and tell us what image comes to mind when you read each word. You can learn more about how machines understand language in the FAQ section.

AI doesn't understand adjectives, please use nouns .

Beauty

Close your eyes, take a deep breath (we all need more of those!), and when you’re ready, choose 3 nouns that represent beauty to you. Not sure? What would you tell your mother, daughter, sister, best friend about what it means to be beautiful?

Try turning adjectives into nouns, or close your eyes and tell us what image comes to mind when you read each word. You can learn more about how machines understand language in the FAQ section.

AI doesn't understand adjectives, please use nouns .

Imperfection

Tell us 3 nouns that illustrate moments, or objects of imperfection, bearing in mind that history and culture have shown that imperfection can be the cornerstone of aesthetics (wabi sabi), or again, the mother of all inventions (necessity).

LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Please answer the following questions to help us measure the impact of art to increase digital literacy and civic engagement in the digital economy/democracy. The last question is meant to gather support to hold similar initiatives in Français!

If your answer is YES, check the box:

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