{"id":6060,"date":"2025-03-15T00:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalculturesandarts.ch\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:52:53","slug":"roland-meyer-republica-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalculturesandarts.ch\/de\/roland-meyer-republica-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Meyer @ re:publica 2025: \u00abGenerative KI und die \u00c4sthetik des digitalen Faschismus\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Der digitale Faschismus liebt generative KI: Trump wie Musk teilen massenhaft KI-generierte Bilder und Videos auf ihren Plattformen, und auch die AfD hat schon lange den Nutzen von Midjourney &amp; Co. f\u00fcr den Wahlkampf erkannt. Das ist kein Zufall, denn die Technologie ist kein politisch neutrales Werkzeug.\n\nGenerative KI basiert auf der massenhaften Aneignung und Entwertung kreativer Arbeit, sie reproduziert und verst\u00e4rkt rassistische und sexistische Klischees, und sie ist strukturell nostalgisch. Denn um ein Bild der Gegenwart oder gar der Zukunft zu generieren, ist sie auf Bilder aus der Vergangenheit angewiesen. Das macht sie anschlussf\u00e4hig f\u00fcr eine globale Rechte, die sich nach einer Vergangenheit sehnt, die so nur in Bildern existiert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><br>Kann es also \u00fcberhaupt einen emanzipatorischen Umgang mit generativer KI geben? Oder sind KI-generierte Bildwelten eindeutig und unwiderruflich rechts codiert? Und welche anderen Bilder lassen sich der \u00c4sthetik des digitalen Faschismus entgegensetzen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Der Talk kann hier nachgeschaut werden:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"re:publica 25: Roland Meyer - Generative KI und die \u00c4sthetik des digitalen Faschismus\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JZpi6Irzvd0?start=3&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital fascism loves generative AI: Trump and Musk share masses of AI-generated images and videos on their platforms, and the AfD has also long recognised the benefits of Midjourney &amp; Co. for election campaigns. This is no coincidence, as the technology is not a politically neutral tool. Generative AI is based on the mass appropriation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"\u00a9 Anne Barth \/ re:publica","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-6060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-generativeai"],"mb":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roland Meyer @ re:publica 2025: \u00abGenerative AI and the Aesthetics of Digital Fascism\u00bb - digital cultures and arts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/digitalculturesandarts.ch\/de\/roland-meyer-republica-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Roland Meyer @ re:publica 2025: \u00abGenerative AI and the Aesthetics of Digital Fascism\u00bb - digital cultures and arts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Digital fascism loves generative AI: Trump and Musk share masses of AI-generated images and videos on their platforms, and the AfD has also long recognised the benefits of Midjourney &amp; Co. for election campaigns. 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