The Wretched of the Algorithm. Artificial Intelligence and Latin American Racialized Bodies

Abstract

2022 was the year of the explosion of the artificial intelligences that create images from texts. Its exponential progress was reflected in the appearance of new functionalities and creative options and the development of different algorithms that improved the quality of these images. We can see how social networks are filled with these creations, between artistic and funny, but at the same time with retractors, such as designerswho see their work threatened by the possibility of no longer needing them for the creation of pieces of design. In this case, the research aims at how these artificial intelligences see us, how they represent us Latin Americans, who have historically seen our culture fall into what Joaquín Barriendos calls the coloniality of seeing, a visual regime that is based on the inferiorization and separation between the observing subject and the observed subject. In addition, this research work is articulated by an artistic practice, related to the same results obtained from different types of artificial intelligence and Latin American racialized bodies, so this text can also be seen as a log of a creative process.