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    "id": "c31906d3-4cd5-5b05-aebe-5ce1538c70b8",
    "kind": "official",
    "name": "Hegemony Eroding: Excavating Diversity in Latent Space",
    "slug": "hegemony-eroding-excavating-diversity-in-latent-space",
    "url": "https://api.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/event/c31906d3-4cd5-5b05-aebe-5ce1538c70b8/?format=api",
    "track": "art-beauty",
    "assembly": "ccc",
    "room": "85a6ba5d-11d9-4efe-8d28-c5f7165a19ce",
    "location": null,
    "language": "en",
    "description": "Generative AI models ingest huge datasets gathered all over the web. Unsurprisingly, they reflect decades of Western cultural hegemony. Yet, the hegemony is not absolute.\r\n\r\nNon-Western motifs, that is, recurring patterns and themes with deep cultural resonance, can be discovered and reproduced across different generative AI models.\r\n\r\nIn this talk I will explain the methods I developed to draw out motifs, the journey I took and what I learned along the way. I will present motifs and use them to outline a space stretching from representation to prejudice on the one hand and western to non-western depiction on the other.\r\n\r\nFinally, I will make a case for AI as a tool for cultural exploration and discuss how monetary incentives jeopardise this endeavour, adding to the long list of reasons to break up monopolies with transparent, publicly-funded AI-models.",
    "schedule_start": "2025-12-29T21:05:00+01:00",
    "schedule_duration": "00:40:00",
    "schedule_end": "2025-12-29T21:45:00+01:00"
}