With the ubiquity of AI-generated images, we are currently confronted with perturbing challenges to visual literacy, individual agency, and social contracts. Is authenticity still discernable? To what ends are images being generated and manipulated? How should law and public policy respond to “deepfakes”? Who can or should be held accountable for harm caused by them? Can individuals protect their own image? That of a group they identify with? How are gender identities and gender politics being transformed by the current possibilities for visual manipulation, instantaneous mass circulation, and the seeming immortality of digital falsehoods?

Join Greta Olson, Elisabeth Lechner, and Irene Kacandes for a riveting discussion on how to better understand and navigate a world where images may or may not tell the “truth,” and how to hold on to a sense of what is legitimate, legal, and human.

The event is open to all and free. Please register here to reserve your spot: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/reading-images-in-the-age-of-ai-tickets-1986059792302

This event is part of the series Humanities for Humans, a collaboration between the De Gruyter Foundation and the New York-based not-for-profit organization tenfourteen/space for ideas. 

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