Ting-Chun Liu
Ting-Chun Liu (Taipei, Taiwan) is an artist whose practice and research operate at the intersections of critical artificial intelligence, audiovisual media, and network practice. Through dissecting technological systems with feedback-driven interventions, he examines how perception, aesthetics, and power dynamics propagate through computational processes. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and currently works as an artistic associate and lecturer at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
Beitrag
Generative AI models don't operate on human languages – they speak in tokens. Tokens are computational fragments that deconstruct language into subword units, stored in large dictionaries. These tokens encode not only language but also political ideologies, corporate interests, and cultural biases even before model training begins. Social media handles like realdonaldtrump, brand names like louisvuitton, or even !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! exist as single tokens, while other words remain fragmented. Through various artistic and adversarial experiments, we demonstrate that tokenization is a political act that determines what can be represented and how images become computable through language.