As has been pointed out many times, GenAI of images confirms the apparent supremacy of the visual in certain respects, reshaping the power of the iconic turn that began over three decades ago. Behind the images are words, such as ekphrastic prompts and labels given to the images in the datasets. Yet, the human preference persists for understanding and being informed about the world through images, if only for the greater speed of message reception. As Heidegger writes, “Bild, image […] indicates […] a form, as resonates from the German idiomatic expression: über etwas im Bilde sein ‘to be informed about something,’ ‘to see clearly’ […] Sich über etwas ins Bild setzen, ‘inquire about something,’ means: placing oneself in front of the being itself, making it present to see how it is, and having it constantly before oneself in the way in which it is placed”.1 But do we, and to what extent, still trust the image as a tool of knowledge and, more generally, of ‘good’ communication?

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  • Veronica Neri

摘要

As has been pointed out many times, GenAI of images confirms the apparent supremacy of the visual in certain respects, reshaping the power of the iconic turn that began over three decades ago. Behind the images are words, such as ekphrastic prompts and labels given to the images in the datasets. Yet, the human preference persists for understanding and being informed about the world through images, if only for the greater speed of message reception. As Heidegger writes, “Bild, image […] indicates […] a form, as resonates from the German idiomatic expression: über etwas im Bilde sein ‘to be informed about something,’ ‘to see clearly’ […] Sich über etwas ins Bild setzen, ‘inquire about something,’ means: placing oneself in front of the being itself, making it present to see how it is, and having it constantly before oneself in the way in which it is placed”.1 But do we, and to what extent, still trust the image as a tool of knowledge and, more generally, of ‘good’ communication?