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In recent years, global democracies are undermined and declined. As the Freedom in the World report 2022 points out, the world is suffering from 16th consecutive year of democratic decline while the authoritarian rule is expanding globally. There has been a rising concern about responding to such a challenge in relation to surveillance capitalism-enabled issues, such as the commodification of behaviour data, privacy violation, disinformation, cognitive warfare and surveillance culture. This artistic research project intends to unpack the relationship between surveillance capitalism and democracy. The project's focus has been visualising the practices of, and emerging technologies fed by, surveillance capitalism, such as behaviour modification, deepfake technology and the widespread application of GenAI, and their impact on democracy through critical interaction design. Composed of a custom designed real-time processing system and the open source AI image generator Stable Diffusion, Seeds of Truth is an interactive installation that makes visible the relationship between visual representation of truth and generative AI. Seeds of Truth invites the audience to interact and experience not only the realness and lifelikeness, but also the artificiality, absurdities and fluidity of "truth" generated by AI. By utilising generative AI from a critical viewpoint, this work aims to raise awareness and questions about how politics are consumed visually and the political nature of AI, and the consequences coming along. What are we seeing? How can we trust what we see? Does want we see tell, represent or define truth? Seeds of Truth is the outcome of Border of Democracy - Human, interface, surveillance capitalism (2023-) supported by strategic fund from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music, Design.

type	research exposition
keywords	interaction design, AI (Artificial Intelligence), design, Artistic reserach, democracy, truth, Generative AI, synthetic media
date	01/05/2025
last modified	06/10/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
affiliation	Faculty of Fine Art, Music, Design, University of Bergen
copyright	Albert Cheng-Syun Tang
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1554302/3918950

name	Seeds of Truth - GenAI_Algorithmic truth_Democracy_Final
copyright	ACST
license	All rights reserved
usages	video

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