Language Is Leaving Me -An AI Cinematic Opera Of The Skin

“Language Is Leaving Me – An AI Cinematic Opera Of The Skin” investigates newly emerging artificial intelligence cinema driven by LLMs or Large Language Models combined with human biometric measurements (skin, muscles) to reveal hidden and devastating aspects of the algorithmic processes underlying the use of AI in human perception, cognition, memory, and identity. The work focuses on epigenetic or inherited traumatic memories of cultures of diaspora that changes an individual's inherited DNA structure that are then passed from generation to generation. AI purports to understand, codify, and tag these vastly complex and uniquely human traits. Using the LAION 5-B visual data set of Stable Diffusion LILM compares and contrasts an original narrated English language video of an epigenetic memory into a representation of an AI induced cognitive dementia. This cinematic performed biometric opera shows AI using different linguistic prompts or scripts in Yiddish, Chinese, Tamil, and Xhosa reinterpreting intergenerational memories, and changing or obliterating their inherent semiotic and semantic references. LILM had its World Premiere at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, Poland on October 7, 2023 at the exact same moment the war in the Middle East broke out, thereby echoing the cyclic nature of epigenetic trauma.