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“Based on this learning process, artificial intelligence generates
new image material - it seeks to create new Czech visual art. Nat-
urally, the larger and more precise the original dataset, the more
accurate the AI outputs will be. To compare: the dataset This
person does not exist contains seventy thousand images of hu-
man faces. The faces that are artificially generated based on this
dataset are hardly distinguishable from the actual human ones.
Using one billion photographs of stones would most likely result in
a convincing digital image which would feel like a photograph of
a real stone. Using only a hundred photographs of stones would
not give such an accurate result. The question is: is the on-line
self-presentation of the contemporary art scene enough? And is
Czech art uniform enough to be imitated by artificial intelligence?
You can communicate with our artificial intelligence and generate
your own new and original Czech art. Use the app in this room.”
Aimee’s monologue – digital guide to the exhibition AI: All Idiots
(Figure. 18).

Tomáš Javůrek has programmed the mobile application AI: All Idi-
ots. Using the phone, the user retrieves a QR code from the website at
https://datatata.info/all-idiots/hit/ and can generate a new generation
of Czech visual art – the outputs of the trained network AI: All Idiots
(Figures 20-22). The application also offers the possibility to influ-
ence the resulting image with the truncation parameter, which shows
the generated image in its more complex and simpler form (Figure 17).

Figure 15: Jokes, Barbora Trnková,
Tomáš Javůrek, AI: All Idiots, the MeetFactory Gallery,
Prague, view of the installation, 2021,
photo: Katarína Hudačinová
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