A note on the images

The words on Eat Your Screen are mine.

The images are different by design.

Much of the visual world around Eat Your Screen is created using artificial intelligence, prompts and agents. That is not something I am trying to hide. It is part of the project.

Eat Your Screen is an investigation into the feed, the algorithm and the changing machinery of taste. So rather than simply writing about those systems from the outside, I am also using them — creating imagery, releasing it into digital platforms and observing what happens next.

What gets noticed? What disappears? What travels? What does an algorithm recognise, recommend or ignore? What information, provenance or signals travel with an image once it leaves the machine that made it?

The visuals are therefore not simply decoration. They are part of the research.

There is also an important distinction between ownership and control. We may own the things we create, but we do not own the conditions in which they circulate. We do not control the feed, the ranking system, the recommendation engine, the metadata or ultimately who gets shown what.

We make the content. They make the feed.

Real people

From time to time, Eat Your Screen may use AI-generated or AI-assisted images depicting recognisable people as part of editorial commentary, cultural observation or visual experimentation.

These images should be understood as synthetic visual interpretations, not documentary photographs. Unless expressly stated otherwise, they do not depict an actual event and should not be taken to suggest that the individual shown participated in, approved, endorsed or is affiliated with Eat Your Screen.

They are not created with the intention of misleading, harming or misrepresenting anyone.

Where an identifiable person believes an image presents them inaccurately or raises a legitimate concern, I want to know about it and will review it, and, where appropriate, change or remove it.

Write to [email protected] and I will reply.

Transparency is part of the experiment.

Because if Eat Your Screen is going to ask what happens when machines increasingly shape what we see, want, eat and believe, it should also be honest about when those same machines are being used here.