Observed arrival · 2026-11-08
Composite, June 1970
An artist uses AI-generated images to imagine San Francisco’s first Pride, while documenting what the images—and the archive—leave out.
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- Readers of queer history and AI-bias critique
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- A 2026 rerun of roughly 2,000 images reproduced the same narrow crowd using the original settings.
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The artist says the first images repeatedly rendered white men in leather and sunglasses, while Black, brown, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people were largely absent from the outputs. They describe the model’s soft, hazy film look as a trade-off of the chosen system, and note that the 32-image selection took longer than generating the larger batch. The page also links to a printed-book selection.
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