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Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed

MIT Technology Review

"It's very easy to see when you've got the memory right, because there is a very visceral reaction," says Pau Garcia, founder of Domestic Data Streamers. Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI's DALL-E, to bring people's memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has been working with immigrant and refugee communities around the world to create images of scenes that have never been photographed, or to re-create photos that were lost when families left their previous homes. Now Domestic Data Streamers is taking over a building next to the Barcelona Design Museum to record people's memories of the city using synthetic images.