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Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com · 15d

New study in Memory, Mind & Media: "Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated #images of #war;
#AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem....

#criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org

Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated
images of war

Abstract
This study addresses how AI-generated images of war are changing the making of memory. Instead of
asking how AI-generated images affect individual recall, we focus on how they communicate specific
representations, recognising that such portrayals can cultivate particular assumptions and beliefs.
Drawing on memory of the multitude, visual social semiotics, and cultivation/desensitisation theories,
we analyse how visual generative AI mediates the representation of the Russia-Ukraine war. Our
corpus includes 200 images of the Russia-Ukraine war generated from 23 prompts across proprietary
and open-source visual generative AI systems. The findings indicate that visual generative AI tends to
present a sanitised view of the war. Critical aspects, such as death, injury, and suffering of children and
refugees are often excluded. Furthermore, a disproportional focus on urban areas misrepresents the
full scope of the war. Visual generative AI, we argue, introduces a new dimension to memory making in
that it blends documentation with speculative fiction by synthesising the multitude embedded within
the visual memory of war archives, historical biases, representational limitations, and commercial risk
aversion. By foregrounding the socio-technical and discursive dimensions of synthetic war content,
this study contributes to an interdisciplinary dialogue on collective memory at the intersection of
visual communication studies, media studies, and memory studies by providing empirical insights into
how generative AI mediates the visual representation of war through human-archival-mechanistic
entanglements.
Keywords: visual generative AI; AI-generated images; memory of the multitude; war representation

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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our video: What is AI Politics - our book series and a thing out there in the world? @andrewhoskins.bsky.social and I mull it over:
Watch: ow.ly/EQFC50WQin8
CFP: ow.ly/M43J50WQin7
Thanks to James @intellectbooks.bsky.social and do consider writing a book on this!

In Conversation with Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · Sep 7

James Campbell is joined by Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin.

They discuss their new book series, AI Politics, which will interrogate and shape debate on the artificial intelligence.

Watch👉ow.ly/EQFC50WQin8

CFP👉ow.ly/M43J50WQin7

@benoloughlin.bsky.social @andrewhoskins.bsky.social

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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · Sep 4

AI & COLLECTIVE MEMORY

The agentic turn shatters collective memory through three key forces:

(1) The war on human agency.

(2) The sharding of the self

(3) The new haunting

My latest article in Current Opinion of Psychology.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AI & Collective Memory

In this review, I show how Generative AI (GAI) utterly transforms how we represent, access, expose and cover, find and lose, sanitise and toxify, use …

www.sciencedirect.com

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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

From the AI and Memory Collection - Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony - cup.org/4fH7W4R

By Atay Kozlovski & Mykola Makhortykh

#digitalduplicate #Holocaust #testimony #artificialintelligence #ethics

Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core

Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony - Volume 4

cup.org

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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

New Article: Peace in every shot: How Kodak changed the way we see war by Hadas Zahavi

Read it here: cup.org/40QIkfG

#Kodak #amateurphotography #visualmemory

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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · Aug 6

My book series with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social - we're getting good proposals and welcome more:
www.intellectbooks.com/ai-politics

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · Aug 2

@andrewhoskins.bsky.social and I picked up this point in our book Radical War.

It isn't a surprise to me that the software optimisation tends to ignore the legal requirements that the armed forces remain accountable to their legislators and in the courts.

amzn.eu/d/0WMoRjm

Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century : Ford, Matthew, Hoskins, Andrew: Amazon.co.uk: Books

amzn.eu

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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · Jun 17

Featured Article: Fake memories: A meta-analysis on the effect of fake news on the creation of false memories and false beliefs - cup.org/3SlXXGY

By Alexa Schincariol, Henry Otgaar, et al.

#fakenews #falsememories #falsebeliefs

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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · Jun 13

New Special Collection: Navigating migration, memory and media

Read the introductory article, written by Ana Belén Martínez García, Monika Arnez and Anita Lunić here: cup.org/4mOLlpQ

#Migration #Memory #Media

Navigating migration, memory and media: Introduction to the collection | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core

Navigating migration, memory and media: Introduction to the collection - Volume 4

cup.org

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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · Jun 11

Great to be here at

NATO #RigaStratComDialogue
@stratcomcoe.bsky.social

rigastratcomdialogue.org

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PaulLev @paullev.bsky.social · Jun 17

Check this out link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...

link.springer.com

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PaulLev @paullev.bsky.social · Jun 17

Just up: Bob Hutchins' riveting interview with Tom Cooper, about his new book, Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, published May 1 by Connected Editions open.spotify.com/episode/6jHa...

Wisdom Weavers & Media Ecology: A Conversation with Dr. Tom Cooper

The Human Voice with Bob Hutchins · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · Jun 17

Great article in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social on when humans are there just to service the AI targeting machine…

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...

link.springer.com

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Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · Jun 17

Review: “The Alibi of AI” by Anthony Downey

aoav.org.uk/2025/review-...

Review: "The Alibi of AI" by Anthony Downey - AOAV

Anthony Downey’s essay argues that artificial intelligence systems used by the Israeli military in Gaza have transformed warfare by automating the designation of targets, eroding human oversight, and ...

aoav.org.uk

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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · Jun 17

THE ALIBI OF AI

Fantastic new article by @atpdowney.bsky.social

Open access in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...

link.springer.com

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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · Jun 11

Great to be here at

NATO #RigaStratComDialogue
@stratcomcoe.bsky.social

rigastratcomdialogue.org

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NATO StratCom COE @stratcomcoe.bsky.social · May 26

Understanding identity’s cognitive roots is key to addressing conflict. What variables shape it?

Panel discussion “Washing away memory. New realities emerging.”
📢 Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025
📅 10–11 June | 📍 Riga, Latvia
🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · Jun 7

I've just read @williammerrin.bsky.social and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social's fast paced book "Sharded Media".

If you who want to understand the highly fragmented state of our media ecologies and how this framed/shaped Trump's 2024 election then this is for you.
www.amazon.co.uk/SHARDED-MEDI...

SHARDED MEDIA: Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream eBook : Merrin, William, Hoskins, Andrew: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · Jun 5

From the Open Collection: Sharing memory and wisdom across generations: A scaffolded community reminiscing programme for adolescents and older adults - cup.org/42YuSGK

By Penny Van Bergen, Tanya Evans, et al.

#reminiscing #intergenerational #lifestory

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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · May 29

From the AI and Memory Collection: Myopic memory: Capitalism's new continuity in the age of AI - cup.org/4ifOxaJ

By Danny Pilkington

#AI #Capitalism #Neoliberalism

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Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social · May 30

JOB KLAXON - 5 year Research Fellowship for experienced postdoc working with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on digital war @edinburghuni.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Research Fellow (WARSHARE)

We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated success in delivering complex research projects, and advanced knowledge in conceptual and theoretical work on the appli...

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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · May 13

From the AI & Memory Collection: Myopic memory: Capitalism's new continuity in the age of AI cup.org/4ifOxaJ

By Danny Pilkington

#AI #Capitalism #Neoliberalism

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williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · May 2

From Merrin and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Sharded Media, written in November:

'Very simply, Reform are going to become one of the most important and powerful voices in UK politics (perhaps the most)' (p. 112)...

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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · May 1

Trending article in Memory, Mind & Media: AI and memory - cup.org/42EoeGC

By Andrew Hoskins

#generativeAI #humanagency #digitalparticipation

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