Passwords for Protected entries are supplied below.
I have added the password step to the True Crime category so no one accidently falls on these disturbing entries that are intended to upset, thrill, and freak out everyone who ever sees them. My love of porn, Trevor Henderson style unsettling images, Weird Tales, ghost stories, the occult, taboo power exchange, all adds up to a weird form of stimulation. I’m inventing something new here. A trip so confrontational you may not be ready for it.
I will say that I tried to focus on news issues and keywords that were the most horrible criminal sexual scenarios I knew of, and used A.I. to recreate disturbing sexy fantasy images from those atrocious crime scenes and news stories. It’s warped. It pleases the, “I want to know more” thing inside us all, but takes it way too far until we scream “I want to know less!” These password protected entries suffer from TMI, which is, too much information. We hear about these crimes, and we think we want to know more until we get too close and then we start to feel the monster inside us all. The True Crime category gets scary.
I have noticed that folk lean in and listen to the news whenever terrible sexual crimes are described. I just heard about the 1974 Garrow case in Syracuse NY in detail on NPR’s Radio Lab. The entire radio broadcast was pedophile murder porn and I found their willingness to go into detail a bit hard to take, but I couldn’t stop listening.
I felt that Radio Lab was a little too opportunistic. I imagined them at a meeting saying, “Fuck yeah, these sexy details are gonna make great radio!” but little girls were raped, tortured, and slain to make up the content of their exciting radio show. I had a terrible thought during the radio show. I thought it would be interesting to make A.I. art that callously sensationalizes an adulteration of these terrible crimes into strange disturbing erotic scenes that are hard to face, just for the fun of it. I figure it’s an idea too fucked up not to do once it has polluted the brain. It’s a terrible experiment and be warned, the end results are powerful.
I have read a lot of Weird Tales, and I also read about how horror stories and movies resonate best with different decades depending on that generation’s particular fears. Economic Depression, War, Atomic Bombs, Communism, Pollution, Alien Invasion, Global Warming, Government Conspiracies, Terrorism, Pandemic… I believe that Artificial Intelligence is this generation’s new horror lurking in the shadows waiting quietly as it watches us. Each decade has a horror of its own. Girls possessed by demons, large voracious sharks, aliens from another planet, and now it is time to fear A.I. : that wicked electronic mirror that only reflects ourselves. It is us we truly fear. The wicked human race.
A.I. can only show us what we have shown it. All of A.I.’s reference points are provided by us, the gestalt of humanity. Just by being connected to the internet, posting to social media, or carrying a smart phone has made us all a contributor to the mayhem that A.I. can use to knit together and create images. The horror is that everything we’ve ever posted on line will come back to haunt us in the form of A.I. art.
There is so much power play going on in a crime scene. I will admit I am afraid of real crime scene photos. Instead I’m entering the crime scene using A.I. only to capture the out of balance massive exchange of power. A.I. doesn’t choose right from wrong, it only makes it all so sexy and disturbing. I know it’s a bad idea, but for some reason I wanted to push A.I. into this corner and see how it would illustrate our everyday barrage of ugly news reports, national discord and global mayhem, and A.I. was way too comfortable here. Sex and violence seems to have plenty of online references for which A.I. to work with.
When making A.I. art, the only person damaged is the viewer.
The audience is the only one who will suffer. Please enter ready to be shocked and a bit dismayed. I have a strange combination of erotica, crime, passion, and violence, that all turns inward and makes you, the viewer, feel weird and criminal for having seen it at all.
When the images and narrative start to turn you on, you’ll feel even more icky.
It’s a weird trip, but I thought it would be a fun experiment to push A.I. into scenes and narratives where real human models normally shouldn’t be asked to go. Looking at A.I. generated images using crime scene keywords created very confrontational and painful images I wouldn’t want to subject real models to. I’m not sure I want to subject any general audience to view these images, either.
Although each piece is relatively short, in no time I felt profound feelings of horror, disgust, allure, seduction, vulnerability, and embarked upon a inward meditation where one learns dark truths about oneself that you may not be ready to face until you’re screaming, “Turn it off! Turn it off!”
I thought the power of these illustrated short stories needed to be shared, but in the very least required a long and tedious disclaimer. Consider yourself warned. Narrative Art of a strange nature ahead.
All I know is that the True Crime category is not for everyone, so please enter the user/passwords provided below at your own discretion.
- Lost Refugees use the password: oversight
- Stained Glass use the password: minister
- Willowbrook use the password: cropsey
- Business Expense use the password: saint