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What if a machine could imagine an alternate existence, peeling back the layers of reality to reveal hidden thoughts?

 

In “Streets of Chicago,” I explore this question by using open-ended prompts to guide an AI in depicting the city’s streets in haunting black and white.

 

The results are unexpected, a machine’s fantasy of Chicago that feels both alien and eerily human, prompting a deeper inquiry:

 

Can AI help us uncover the unseen?

 

Can it imagine beyond what we feed it?

 

Does it possess a fantasy of its own, and if so, how human is AI already?

 

As a posthumanist, I’m fascinated by the dissolving boundaries between human and machine creativity, and this project becomes a search for the thought behind reality, an optional existence where the streets of Chicago hold emotions, memories, and truths that transcend the visible.

 

This isn’t just AI-driven street photography; it’s a bold leap into the intersection of technology and imagination, challenging us to rethink what it means to see, to create, and to exist.