The Hot Air Generator is an AI-driven, interactive media installation that exposes the tendency of generative AI models to produce believable, yet non-factual data when prompted with information they have not been explicitly trained on. After recording the sound of a steaming water kettle, sequentially chained up AI models (speech audio enhancement model → speech-to-text model → large-language model) process the outputs of their predecessors, turning hot air into a newspaper article.

2023

Artificial neural networks, electronic circuitry, cardboard, glass, various plastics, various metals, water