Please note that neither the voice or the words featured in the materials below are those of Allan Kaprow.
Whilst it is my words that are heard first and then go on to lead the interview, it is not my voice that speaks them. The text for the interview was generated in a conversation I had with ChatGPT. I then fed the conversation into a text-to-speech AI voice generator, giving ChatGPT-Kaprow and myself distinct voices. I replaced my own voice, perhaps perversely and/or poignantly, by feeding the AI voice generator with an extract of a young Queen Elizabeth II, then a 21-year-old Princess of Wales (see here). I say 'perversely and/or poignantly' because I have used the voice of a deceased person to ask the questions. I have scored the videos below with BLK w/BEAR's 'Allan Kaprow', from their album Mo Re B Roken Th an Y Ou (2018).
I have not substantially changed or made any major additions to the text that ChatGPT generated in response to my questions. I also did not change the sometimes random changes in tempo in the AI-generated voices, and their occasional mistakes, I also decided to leave in other mist-AI-kes , or w-AI-rds, which had been the result of my own typos since the beginning of the project (i.e. 'chose' instead of 'choose' in my exchange with ChatGPT-Pina).
This is, I hope, a thought-provoking and ephemeral experiment. It was conducted with the utmost respect and admiration for the figure and work of Allan Kaprow. I am deeply fascinated by the fact that, in this engagement with ChatGPT whilst it pretended to be Allan Kaprow, the AI-generated response went on to reflect, without being prompted, on the use of generative AI.
[I do not have copyright over any in the images or music featured. The video is created for pedagogical purposes and as part of Practice Research.]
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