This installation speculates on C's childhood, the childhood of an artificial intelligence or an artificial intelligence being. Driven by his desire to be an artist, he transforms user-generated posters into creative works of art. The starting point is the study of the brain's reactions to visual stimuli (in neuroscience called "incongruent images"). These images are often used to attract attention in advertising or appear in some works of the Surrealist Movement. C, the being with artificial intelligence that accompanies us in the installation, is inspired by the little girl protagonist of the story of Goldilocks. Little C dreams of becoming an artist and is trained to create images with the help of the exhibition's audience. The work uses artificial intelligence systems and creative software to reflect on those technologies that are currently in their early years and that we users help to educate. Like all learning, most artificial intelligence is based on copying and repeating previous patterns, raising questions about the perpetuation of stereotypes in programming languages. The rhetoric of the "artificial" character of artificial intelligences masks the fact that their training is based on huge amounts of precarious human labour displaced through online platforms. As with human intelligences, the development of artificial intelligences requires monotonous, tedious, undervalued and invisible tasks. These works, behind the veil of automation, naturalise cultural patterns and those related to the distribution of activities. But the future of artificial intelligence is not written: other training models open the door to other evolutions, other stories of artificial life.
