CLASSIFIED is a self-portraiture series exploring the classification “Holly Herndon” embedded in OpenAI’s CLIP. 

CLIP knows who I am, so I trained a custom neural network to visualize what CLIP believes me to be. 

This system and others were prompted with a variety of inputs; public domain art, shapes, and Perlin noise, and invited to produce a portrait of “Holly Herndon”. 

Far from automated, this was a conversation between me and an AI; I hope to know as much about it as it knows about me <3

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Created in collaboration with Mathew Dryhurst, OpenAI CLIP and Stable Diffusion.

Part of the CLASSIFIED collection, a self-portraiture series exploring the classification “Holly Herndon” embedded in OpenAI’s CLIP, since 2021.

A portion of the sale of this work at Sotheby's will be donated to Planned Parenthood.

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