Nov 4, 2026, 5:16 PMMy #40C3 #chaosCommunicationCongress talk got accepted!
Story Seeds vs Climate Slop: How Solarpunk Artists Envision Futures Image Models Cannot
Ask a search engine what a sustainable future looks like and you get flooded with GenAI pictures of trees on buildings: an averaged futurism of the training dataset. The Story Seed Library offers an alternative: over 150 illustrations by 36 artists from Argentina to Ukraine, envisioning hopeful climate futures (...)
Nov 4, 2026, 5:20 PMwith ample space for hackers and human-centered technology, all free to reuse under Creative Commons licenses. In this talk we look at the intentional visual language of these works - from community focus to visible infrastructure - and at how imagining specific futures restores the agency that a model's prediction takes away.
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You will be able to watch it this December, and in the meantime feel free to visit https://storyseedlibrary.org/
@alxd amazing, looking forward to the talk