Byte Me
10 images Created 27 Oct 2021
"Byte Me" is an experimental collage video using a subset of jpg images of objects from ImageNet, the first largescale database used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems in object recognition and classification. The creators of ImageNet collected these images indiscriminately from the internet and labeled them using cheap human gig labor sourced via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. AI algorithms are then trained on this convenience sample of more than 14 million online photos organized into more than 20,000 categories of objects. This experimental video aims to examine what is in ImageNet, and question how power and privilege are embedded across a gender divide in the database.