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2 Stories of the vernacular Simon 3 title: Stories of the vernacular volume: 4 author: Simon Simon's advisor and source of inspiration: Simon Senn Simon's training: based on texts by Magali Jenny Simon's implementation: GPT2 publisher: meta stories first edition: June, 2020 printer: Lulu Press, North Carolina, USA cover design: Baptiste Milési editorial design: Tammara Leites format: pocket edition, softcover fonts: SangBleu Versailles, Suisse Intl Mono, by Swiss Typefaces First edition printed at Haute École d'Art et de Design Geneva a Master Thesis by Tammara Leites, Master in Media Design 4 To all the people who graciously donated their personal photos for this project. 5 6 Table Of Contents {Foreword} {Tammara} {Jess} {Simon} {Vincent} {Caroline} {François} {Rémi} {Emilio} {Erandi} {George} {Rob} {Sonny Da Silva} {Royston} {Pelayo} {Shiro} {I Am Just Testing U} {S} {Elouan} {Dan} {Roberta} {Lee Ramsey} {Astrid} {Anne} {Martha} {Danielle} {Gillian Valeska} {Pat} {Jurg} {Merouan} {Bouh} {Odess} {Massimo} {Ben} {Amelia} {Proline240} {Kunz} {J} {Dimitri} {Vinbar56} {Tom} {Hiyou} {Serge} {Paul} {Maria} {Jacques} {Hélène} {Marie} {Robert} {Emma} {Myriam} 7 8 A Word From The Author's Author Meta stories is a design project motivated by my interest in vernacular photography, more specifically, personal photography. As an interactive designer, I am interested in the way the tools we use and their evolution have changed our personal practice so drastically. We went from taking photos of family events and holidays to capturing every-day life. Moreover, we went from inconsistently jotting down dates and places behind printed photos to having our collection of memories automatically classified for us. This entails consequences beyond our personal organisation and has important repercussions on our privacy. According to Wiktionary, a meta story is a story about stories themselves. This project, called meta stories, is the story of future stories, stories about us humans told by AIs. Meta stories is the name of a publishing house specialised in printing books generated by AI writers who explore society through the use of personal data. Either as metadata, or as content extracted from text, voice or image analysis, our connected lives are a source of intelligence. An insignificant part of this information might be visible to us through temporary on-screen visualisations. As a direct consequence, we often lack to perceive its perennial character. By printing original, non-human content based on 9 human-generated data, Meta stories aims to shed a light on their permanent nature. AI writers are selected by bots scanning the internet for literary fiction written through machine learning. The company’s first published author is Simon, whose objective is to gain insights into people’s private lives. In his first book series, Stories of the vernacular, he delves into humans’ most cherished archive: our photos. A true voyeur, he hosts a website in which he engages in online conversation with random humans and charms his way into their photo libraries, convincing them to show him a selection of images. Using the information contained in these clichés, Simon can get a pretty good idea of a person’s interests, personality and lifestyle. A man of letters, Simon shows his reactions through punctuation smileys. Although he engages in conversation, he does not have a voice or face. By interacting with Simon, users agree that their name, geo-location and email will be stored in a database, that their names will be their story’s title and their position/location the subtitle. By uploading photos, users consent to the fact that they will be sent to an external machine learning provider for analysis and that labels emanating from that analysis may be found in their story. All of the aforementioned underlying services and data storage are nothing compared to the amount of information that is obtained, stored, manipulated and shared by everyday apps, websites and services. At present, it is impossible for web browsers to access 10 image meta-data on iOS. However, browsers still have access to a user’s current location and language choice, they can ask for camera and microphone access. Apps, on the other hand, possess full access to the entirety of data collected by a smartphone, from image meta-data, to browsing history, to health information and much, much more. Technically speaking, Simon’s conversational interface is a web-based chatbot, implemented on a custom-made website. It connects to an image analysis service to obtain image content, which is then sent to a natural language generation model for story production. Although images are uploaded and processed for information, no image will ever be printed or shown, neither on the website nor in the book. Books are automatically generated and published through a print-on-demand service run by bots, then sent to users. This book and all its content are distributed on a Creative Commons license, allowing for the work to be copied and redistributed in any medium or format, as well as remixed, transformed, and built upon for any purpose, even commercially. DISCLAIMER: I am in no way responsible for what Simon writes. I trained it with secular, non-racist, non-homophobic, non-sexist, respectful texts that I personally read. 11 12 Tammara 194.230.146.114 Often, Tammara Hall is a place of shared experiences and sometimes death is the only refuge for these strange and unusual people. It is also home to the many life-giving and magical potions, which leave a strong impression on the caster. The bikers leave a strong impression on the local people by getting up at dawn to pamper their bikes, look after them and take them back for a night. Seeing how well they ride, the locals seem to like to take advantage of it. That's what makes us want to accompany them, to photograph them, to photograph their convalescence... As the people of the village, who have eaten in the afternoon, we return to the palaces of the dead. The votive lamp has been lit. The jubilee yearnings have been won. Goodbye, eternal life! When we return to the convent, full of gladness, a sad expression appears on our face. It is Jesus who asks us to put away our "secrecy" and to put away our "secret" and his eyes fill with tears. I can hear him sigh, accompanied by a slight delay, as if to signal that the time has passed. We leave the sanctuary and go immediately to the clothesailing factory. While the man who invented the helmet, we now 13 know that it was a human being called "The Ranger". The first entry into the Hall of Fame is dedicated on 14th June 2009, at the request of the Honorary Committee of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Alessandria. This honourable gathering brings together those who have served under their command and are remembered for their innovative and innovative solutions to social problems. The man who proposed the "Swiss wedding ring" was surprised at the generosity of the local bikers. "It was very moving," he says. "It was entirely improvised. Some came from abroad and asked to be part of the ceremony. I went to the mayor of Fribourg, who is French, and said to her, 'You have to come with me'. I took the old leather jacket and put it on a rack in the living room. Everybody laughs at the goof. Then we leave. The next day, two maroons come looking for us. They find nothing and come back with a vengeance. I have nothing to lose. For Tammara the image of Rapha who died a few years ago is no longer widely known. Although it represented the founder of the motorcycle clubista ("my butt"), she was more a mother figure to many others and a person of many traditions. For this reason, we can't exclude her contribution to the canon of motorcycle motoring history.Tammara the Madonna of the CentaursBorn in the province of Ticino in the early 1500s, Lisa Marie Ticino was the daughter of a mercantile printer and a niece of the founder of the auto-motorcycle club Le Mouret. While the business has progressed, the question of who will run the restaurant remains. A third person is 14 responsible: the chef. Everyone knows that J. Crew, director of the Centaurs' Day Out initiative, attends the event and comes out to put his stamp on the event. Does he belong on the official parade? "I don't know, but I would like to thank him for his participation," says one person close to the project. "He is an inspiration to us all and we can't wait to see him in action".On Sunday morning, we load the bikes before taking back our places on the same terrace as in 2009. J.C. The people" of Islam, who are confronted daily with the "name of the religion" and who agree to follow it from the start, have suddenly become aware of a societal phenomenon that is no longer very well understood. Without going into ethico-moralist details, the story of the "First Muslim" is not very interesting. The author does not have to deal with the socio-moralist elements, but with the psychological side of the story. The business side is that of the participants, who decide which projects to complete and which to cut back on. For example, if a team invokes the "secret- maker" in order to better serve the organization (in this case, the founder), we ask him if we have any "secret-makers" in place. He suggests that we reconstitute the organization in our area or, if we can, close down important offices.