REALITYBYTES (2023)

REALITYBYTES (2023) is a web-browser which substitutes images and photographs on cnn.com, thesun.co.uk, and pornhub.com with equivalents produced by AI. This alteration results in a fusion of content that is both humorous and uncanny.

The experience also reveals the embedded biases and racial tendencies within AI systems, serving as an exploration of AI’s escalating influence over image perception and representation.

REALITYBYTES works on cnn.com and thesun.co.uk, two platforms with distinctly different approaches to news delivery. By utilizing AI to replace images on these news websites, it challenges our assumptions about the ‘reality’ presented by these images.

The project was launched at panke.gallery on June 29, 2023 and ran for one month.