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?
Slides
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Misreading as Material
- AI collapses ambiguity
- AI invents narrative
- AI exaggerates pattern
- Error reveals bias
- Misinterpretation becomes meaning
- 12
Case Studies of Misreading
- Narrative drift
- Spatial confusion
- Affective mismatch
- Semantic collapse
- What the model insists the image “is”
- 13
Conceptual Stakes
- Who authors meaning?
- Where does intention end?
- What remains photographic?
- What happens to truth and evidence?
Student activity
20:00
- 01Collect one machine misreading of your own image and classify its failure mode.
- Claim 01