Menschchmal
Menschchmal, 2023, 2:01 min
A short film based on a conversation with a text based AI about gender-inclusive language. The dialogue exposes the limits of neutrality in machine learning, showing how even supposedly neutral systems revert to coded biases, trained on past texts these sytems subtly reproduce old patterns of thought. History lingers in the code—echoing through the supposed future in ways we barely notice. The work highlights the friction at the human-machine threshold, pointing to a potential source of error when equality is programmed into systems shaped by historical bias—and suggesting that many such hidden sources remain embedded and unnoticed.
A short film based on a conversation with a text based AI about gender-inclusive language. The dialogue exposes the limits of neutrality in machine learning, showing how even supposedly neutral systems revert to coded biases, trained on past texts these sytems subtly reproduce old patterns of thought. History lingers in the code—echoing through the supposed future in ways we barely notice. The work highlights the friction at the human-machine threshold, pointing to a potential source of error when equality is programmed into systems shaped by historical bias—and suggesting that many such hidden sources remain embedded and unnoticed.
