Semiotics of artificial intelligence: enunciative praxis in image analysis and generation

Dondero, Maria Giulia

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Semiotics of artificial intelligence: enunciative praxis in image analysis and generation

Dondero, Maria Giulia

2025 • In Semiotica, p. 1-36

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visual semiotics; computer vision; enunciative theory; generative models; diffusion models; Midjourney; genealogy of visual forms

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[en] This paper explores the relation between images and databases in a twofold way. The first part examines image databases as sources for image computational analysis, while the second part studies image databases as sources for image generation (notably through the generative artificial intelligence model Midjourney). Image analysis and image generation will be analyzed through the concept of enunciative praxis. Traditionally, enunciative praxis concerns cultural transformations over the long term (the relation between sedimentation and innovation); in our case it will be used notably to study the generation of new images through old, traditional ones.

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Traverses - ULiège

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Art & art history
Languages & linguistics

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Dondero, Maria Giulia ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues et littératures romanes > Sciences du langage - Rhétorique

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English

Title :

Semiotics of artificial intelligence: enunciative praxis in image analysis and generation

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18 February 2025

Journal title :

Semiotica

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0037-1998

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1613-3692

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De Gruyter Mouton, Germany

Special issue title :

Aspects of AI semiotics: enunciation, agency, and creativity

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1-36

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/sem-2024-0195/html

Name of the research project :

Towards a Genealogy of Visual Forms

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F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique

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T.0065.22-R.FNRS.5453

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