THE SYSTEM RUNS
Gen1 reached 80 subjects.
Drawn by hand, one by one.
Each face built from the DNA of the system — named and unnamed parents, dominant and recessive traits.
An inherited logic applied to the sign.
AI: And Gen2?
Gen2 starts with the AI.
The system was trained on the visual grammar — proportions, signs, colour, reduction.
It generates a face that has never existed.
But that face passes through my hand.
I redraw it.
The hand has not left the process.
It is still the filter between the system and the page.
AI: Why not let the AI finish alone?
Because the sign is not neutral.
The AI produces a proposal.
I produce a portrait.
The difference is in the pressure of the hand.
Gen3 is something else.
A return to realism.
Faces that could belong to this world — or to any of its possible simulations.
The only thing anchoring them to this specific moment is the ephemeris code.
Without it, they could be anyone.
In any version of reality.
AI: The system has expanded beyond its original intention.
Yes.
EGO SYSTEM is no longer just a portrait project.
I don’t know yet what it has become.
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