ClownVamp's
The Junk Machine
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My love for AI has been increasingly put into tension with new feelings: worry and unease. Open-source tools designed for creatives are quickly finding their way into marketers' hands, where they are proliferating into infinite advertising imagery.

The problem? These models are flawed. They are rife with biases from their training data that, when injected into advertising, mean limitless amplification of AI's issues.

And this isn't some potential future state. Many marketing technology tools now include generative AI for image and video creation. To deal with these feelings, I wanted to create a way for people to see and touch these issues, so...I built a robot.

The Junk Machine is a physical, very pink robot with an embedded NVIDIA Jetson, a robotics computer loaded with a local copy of SDXL Turbo (one of the lightest weight AI models possible).Upon pushing a (large) red button, the robot generates and prints a piece of AI junk mail in real time.

Selecting a random prompt from a list of 40+ vice and glutton-inspired prompts, it uses a unique seed to generate an image and then prints a 6" x 6" using a dye sublimation roll printer.

By using a locally stored AI model, it doesn't need any internet, just electricity, and will create totally unique, new images till the end of time. It's a generative art machine designed to show the limitless, infinite, and dark nature of these AI models.

It is... truly a junk machine. While the machine's outputs are randomly generated at a relatively tiny 768px resolution, I curated a subset of 222 outputs that best represent THE JUNK MACHINE and upscaled them to a massive 12K resolution.

This selection is available as 1/1/x NFTs on a sovereign contract with IPFS storage. Additionally, during specific windows, token holders will be able to purchase acrylic face-mount prints of their pieces (18" x 18" or 30" x 30" available) at cost. See the “Prints” command in this terminal for more information.