Paranoid Transformer
Aleksey Tikhonov
2020
The result of the play between neural networks with their own mysterious motivations, Paranoid Transformer presents itself at first as a diary, written out in a cursive sometimes steady and sometimes not. And, when examined closely, neither human nor digital, but operating in some vertigious in-between. The titular digital paranoid fills the page with their own unique range of fears, rants and doodles — from the mundane to the absurd and uncanny. Generated using a wide variety of artificial intelligence techniques, Transformer invites the reader to explore new precipices in the poetics of text-generation, some admixture of novel, noise and scribble.
Tikhonov's work embodies the spectrum of current technological possibilities whilst alluding to the traditional powers of the human hand and mind
— Luba Elliott
If in reading this book, you find many of the short sections of writing following from one another, linked and proceeding in a plausible way, is it possible the paranoia is yours, dear reader?
— Nick Montfort