World Simulator: Queer Erotica and the Absurdity of AI Video Models That Promise the World
Increasingly, AI video models are marketed as "world simulators," suggesting their ability to model infinite realities. Despite such claims, these models systematically exclude significant aspects of embodied human experience, particularly sexuality. World Simulator is a video installation exploring the poetic friction between these universal claims and the models' inherent blindness. To do so, the work feeds explicit gay erotica into an AI video-to-video pipeline. Lacking the training data to recognize these images, the system hallucinates surreal alternatives, transforming intimate acts into banal scenes of kitchen appliances, strange architectures, and abstract flesh. By visualizing th...
| Authors | Adam Cole, Mick Grierson |
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| Primary category | cs.MM |
| Published | 29 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 29 June 2026 |
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