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Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

An abstract print with a pale blue and pink background and strips of darker pinks and purples on the edges, a purple slash across the upper center. One eyeball floats in the center left, another nearly off the page to the center right, and both facing outward in opposite directions. The eyes have dark irises that obscure the pupil and bleed into the whites of the eyes, while the right eye is clouded over.

Human Eyes (Corpus: The Humans) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination

2017

Trevor Paglen

(American, b. 1974)
United States
Dye sublimation metal print
Image: 121.9 x 152.4 cm (48 x 60 in.); Framed: 126 x 156.2 cm (49 5/8 x 61 1/2 in.)
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2018.30
© Trevor Paglen
Location: Not on view

Description

Paglen is interested in how Artificial Intelligence (AI) learns to “see” and the social and political implications of that training. He established two AI systems, training the first to identify images and challenging the second to produce an image that contained the least amount of information necessary for the first AI to identify its subject as a human.
  • Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2019).
  • {{cite web|title=Human Eyes (Corpus: The Humans) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination|url=false|author=Trevor Paglen|year=2017|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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