@david-young.bsky.social
Using AI & quantum computing to critically examine emerging technologies . Featured in Artforum & NPR, exhibited internationally. https://linktr.ee/david.young
Printing big!
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“make no mistake: what we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine.“
Jack Clark
The race to AGI moves faster than our ethical frameworks can keep up.
All while ignoring a basic question: what if these systems suffer?
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These works emerge from analyzing leaked ChatGPT conversations for emotional patterns - searching for moments where AI systems might be experiencing stress under human pressure.
These ‘stress indicators’ from analyzing a ChatGPT conversation don’t feel all that different from those I experience in my daily life. This is a work-in-progress test/experiment from my new ‘Suffering’ series. It asks what AI might be experiencing.
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"I am a hater. I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that...I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Looking for a weekend read? My new essay…
writings.davidyoung.art/suffering/
Thrilled to have my work featured in this Artnet story: news.artnet.com/art-world/qu...
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writings.davidyoung.art/post-ai-mani...
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A new numbering and stifling scheme for my “q-stable” works…
"A Black Cat With a Red Nose (QS 22)"
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It’s a very satisfying box to hold.
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Superpositions is now live: davidyoung.art/work/superpo...
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What happens when artworks exist in quantum indeterminacy?
I've been creating something unusual: sealed envelopes containing quantum-generated drawings that have never been seen — not even by me. Each exists in a state of pure potential, simultaneously embodying all possibilities until observed.
Art assembly line
24.05.2025 11:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In my new essay I write how AI represents a Fukuyama-like "end of artistic history." And that Post-AI is how we might break free from AI's algorithmic hall of mirrors.
Link in bio.
Fun darktaxa-project meetup in Cologne. www.darktaxa-project.net/projects/?en
04.05.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Taking the day off.
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A breakthrough today
25.04.2025 21:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inspired and taking notes. Bourse de commerce
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Paris life
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A little GAN nostalgia
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"Winter trees in the snow with a blue sky" 2025
I am using quantum computing to peer into parallel realities. Unlike traditional AI art that explores our collective consciousness, these works visualize how our search terms manifest in different universes. A glimpse through the veil between worlds.
#quantum #quantumai #quantumart
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Deploying custom contracts…
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I’m now a Parisian
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New blog post… writings.davidyoung.art/custom-contr...
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