Accelerate or Die!
Singularity Soup Kitchen

Installation, participative cooking performance, 2024
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Invited by Karen Eliot.

Hey,
I just invented a new philosophy with the boys. YOLO! Come over, there’s alphabet soup with utopia. Or apocalypse, nobody knows for sure. Either way: Let’s watch everything heat up and talk about it.
— Flo

A cooking event and dissection of current AI trends and the “Effective Accalerationists” movement — a fringe group, but with a few powerful people among them (e.g. Elon Musk).

Over the evening, visitors are invited to cut vegetables, add vegetable broth from containers labeled with “Bullshit”, “Biases”, “Theft” and”Exploitation”. Large Language models are basically Alphabet Soup, so that is what we are cooking. Until the soup becomes an inedible swamp.

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Installation view at fl~w Bonn

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Ingredients for the soup include “Bullshit”, “Biases”, “Theft”, “Exploitation”

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OpenAI and still life

Can you fight AI companies? Not by using their tools, that is for sure. But you can use the one thing they don’t want you to use. Their Logo.

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Discussing what to add next. Photo: Reut Shemesh

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