This gallery is less about images than information. Gemini and MidJourney helped create the fake traffic-camera footage, but the real engine of the piece is text: a vast field of invented license plates developed with ChatGPT from the enormous amount of language and data available to it.
The result feels strangely plausible. Plates flash past with abbreviations, jokes, fragments, references, and Face-centered messages that look as though they might have been captured by an ordinary roadside camera. The footage is fictional. The plates are fictional. The systems they imitate are very real.
That is where the gallery gets interesting. Traffic cameras already turn everyday movement into data, timestamps, locations, identifiers, and evidence. Here, those same visual cues are used to manufacture a record of something that never happened. The line between documentation and invention is getting thinner. Somewhere in the blur, The Face got a license plate.