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Artificial intelligence is radically transforming the production and perception of images, raising new questions about authorship, style, originality, and responsibility. Starting from an analysis of generative text-to-image and text-to-video models, the lecture unfolds along three conceptual axes:<\/p>\n

1. The role of semantic attractors: words or concepts that guide visual generation by acting as gravitational poles of meaning;<\/p>\n

2. The ethical and aesthetic biases implicit in datasets and algorithmic filters, inevitable insofar as they mirror our own prejudices;<\/p>\n

3. The notion of distributed creativity, which deconstructs the idea of the author as an isolated individual and instead recognizes the network of actors (both human and non-human) involved in the construction of the image.<\/p>\n

The lecture, curated by Francesco D’Isa, weaves together philosophical, semiotic, and technical perspectives, offering a critical and practical reflection on how to use these tools consciously, without succumbing either to technological hype or to a priori rejection. Designed for scholars, artists, and cultural practitioners, it invites a shift in perspective: not only to ask what AI does, but what it tells us about how we construct meaning, aesthetics, and collective memory today.<\/p>\n

The lecture will be held in Italian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121362,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1705],"cini_tax_institutes":[38],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1549],"class_list":["post-121364","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-training","cini_tax_institutes-digital-centre-archive-en","cini_tax_event_locations-online-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSemantic Attractors, Bias, and Distributed Creativity: Images and Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Fondazione Giorgio Cini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/en\/eventi\/semantic-attractors-bias-and-distributed-creativity-images-and-authorship-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Semantic Attractors, Bias, and Distributed Creativity: Images and Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Fondazione Giorgio Cini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artificial intelligence is radically transforming the production and perception of images, raising new questions about authorship, style, originality, and responsibility. 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