INMATES OF THE FUTURE
Our society is built on many overlapping systems, determining who you are before you even know it. In the 19th century, Francis Galton, a British eugenicist, tried to distinguish criminals from non-criminals by their facial features. Even though the research failed to be successful, his attempt was not the last. AI works based on provided datasets, recreates already existing patterns, and enhances them for us to observe. I have trained my AI model on a dataset of mugshots and generated new ones. Young, happy, and innocent, yet already labeled guilty.
I started from the history of recognizing criminals by their facial features and how a long time ago they thought that by the size of your forehead, your nose, and the distance between your eyes you can recognize a criminal. I trained an AI with a dataset of mugshots of criminals in America and asked to generate new people. These (non-exciting) people I turned into kids and labeled them as inmates of the future. You can view these on the website inmatesofthefuture.com and each time generate a new kid/future inmate.
2020