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title: Who Answers for the Generated Image
author:
  name: HSU, Che-jui
  alternate_name: 許哲睿
about:
- ../../works/chaos-body-shop/index.md
resource: https://5219rayhsu.github.io/en/texts/critique/
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description: HSU Che-jui's paper reframes Foucault's “author function” for the age
  of generative AI, through a case study of his artist book Chaos Body Shop and its
  core work When I Grow Up.
content_scope: summary
cites:
- name: Trevor Paglen, "Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)", The New Inquiry
  url: https://thenewinquiry.com/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you/
- name: Andrej Karpathy, post on X
  url: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
updated: '2026-07-27'
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# Who Answers for the Generated Image

HSU Che-jui's paper reframes Foucault's “author function” for the age of generative AI, through a case study of his artist book Chaos Body Shop and its core work When I Grow Up.

## Key facts

- Author: HSU, Che-jui
- Related work: ../../works/chaos-body-shop/index.md
- Official page: https://5219rayhsu.github.io/en/texts/critique/

(This is a summary, not the full text; see the official page for the complete article.)