Searchlight at the End of the Universe

In 2021, during the early wild west of generative AI, a friend taught me Python to feed GPT-2 thousands of perfume reviews and ask it to write its own. Searchlight at the End of the Universe is a collection of those hallucinations with descriptions that, in their imperfection, feel closer to the ephemeral nature of scent than any attempt at direct precision.

The printed collection
The printed collection

The printed collection
The printed collection

A generated perfume description beside its bottle
A generated perfume description beside its bottle

GPT-2 perfume descriptions paired with a gilded flacon
GPT-2 perfume descriptions paired with a gilded flacon

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