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Code as Medium
1.3 Misreading as Material

Session 1 · Tool Lab · Lesson 03

Misreading as Material

AI collapses ambiguity, invents narrative, and exaggerates pattern. Error reveals bias. Misinterpretation becomes meaning.

Concept

  • Four failure modes: narrative drift, spatial confusion, affective mismatch, semantic collapse.
  • What the model insists the image 'is' tells you what it was trained to expect.
  • The stakes are conceptual: authorship, intention, truth, and evidence.

When the machine gets it wrong, what does the error reveal?

Student activity

20:00
  1. 01Collect one machine misreading of your own image and classify its failure mode.
  1. Claim 01
    Verdict