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1.1 AI as an Interpretive System

Session 1 · Tool Lab · Lesson 01

AI as an Interpretive System

This is not tool training, and it is not prompt optimization. AI is treated as a collaborator, not a generator — and photography as translation, not capture.

Concept

  • Photography has always been mediated: optical index → chemical process → digital signal → probabilistic inference.
  • Meaning shifts from seeing to inferring.
  • Loss of index, gain of abstraction.

What changes when meaning shifts from seeing to inferring?

Student activity

15:00
  1. 01Bring one photograph you know well. Write two sentences on what you believe it shows.