Prompt Your Person

Introduction

In an era where AI-generated images are crafted from words rather than real-world references, they often lack the quality of the human experience. Latent Identities explores the gap between how computers see us and how we see ourselves, raising questions about the accuracy and emotional truth of AI representations. Can we overcome the biases and limitations of AI with a more nuanced and compassionate approach? And how can practices from other disciplines help us perceive and describe people more authentically?

Timeline

June 2024 - October 2024

Team

Project Lead

Ploipailin Flynn

Research & Creative Lead

Nadia Piet

The Hmm

Lillian Stolk

Partner

The Hmm

Funding

SIDN fund

Introduction

Timeline

June 2024 - October 2024

Team

Project Lead

Ploipailin Flynn

Research & Creative Lead

Nadia Piet

The Hmm

Lillian Stolk

Partner

The Hmm

Funding

SIDN fund

Why it matters

Prompt Your Person challenges you to write a prompt that captures the essence of your favourite person. It invites you to go beyond visual descriptions to prompt portraits that convey how and why you love them.

Generative AI often creates stereotypical images of people—depicting leaders as men, hyper-sexualized Asian women, aggressive Blacks, or beauty as smooth skin and symmetrical faces. These tropes are not only damaging but fail to reflect how we see our loved ones. Describing someone in purely physical terms overlooks their aura and the deeper, emotional connection we feel to them—the warmth of their hug, the joy of their laugh.

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How we did it

This project developed an interactive tool that helps people grasp and subvert the unrealistic perfection of AI-generated images.

The journey included research and the development of an interactive experience, culminating in its presentation at the "Poetics of Prompting" exhibition at MU Hybrid Art House during Dutch Design Week, from October 4 to November 24, 2024.

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Still of Prompt your Person at the Poetics of Prompting, Exhibition by The Hmm at MU Hybrid Art House, in Eindhoven

Output

What we made

Interactive Installation @ Poetics of Prompting Exhibition

The web tool we created was was exhibited as part of the Poetics of Prompting Exhibition by The Hmm at MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven.

Prompt Your Person was a successful experiment in critical AI pedagogy, helping thousands of visitors — many new to generative AI — understand the challenges and limitations of generating realistic images of people using generative AI.