Artificial Intelligence can now create images and videos of us indistinguishable from reality.
These are called deep fakes... making us say or do anything like puppets.
A.I. only learns from what it's been shown... inheriting the biases of the people who build them.
So an artist and a drag queen decided to queer the process.
We trained a neural network to clone a drag queen. Using a 'conditional generative adversarial network we constructed Zizi. 
*Video-to-Video Synthesis (2018)
A virtual body whose image & movement is learnt from our reference footage.
Starring Zizi as "Annie"
and Me as "Frank"
in Zizi & Me
Performing "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) from "Annie Get Your Gun". An art project by Jake Elwes. Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute, 2020
Anything
you can do, I can do better.
I can do anything better than you.
no you can't, yes I can, no you can't
Yes I can
no you can't, yes I can, yes I can
Anything you can be I can be greater.
Sooner or later I'm greater than you.
No you're not, yes I am, no
you're not, yes I am, yes I am
I can shoot a partridge with a single
cartridge. I can get a sparrow with a
Bow and arrow.
I can live on bread and cheese.
And only on that?
Yep. So can a rat.
Any note you can sing I can sing higher.
I can't sing any note higher than you.
No you can't, yes I can,
no you can't, yes I can,
No you can't, yes I can
No you can't!
Yes I can!
How do you sing that high? I'm a girl
Anything you can say I can say softer. I
can say
anything softer than you. no you can't,
yes I can,  no you can't,
yes I can
I can drink my liquor faster than a
flicker
I can drink it quicker and get even
sicker
I can open any safe. Without being caught? 
Too bad.  That's what I thought your crook.
Any note you can hold I can hold longer.
I can hold any note longer than you.
No you can't,
yes I can, no you can't, yes I can
No you ca...
Yes I...
...can.
Yes you can
Where you keep all that air? Here... Oh
Anything you can say I can say faster. I
can say anything faster than you
No you can't. Yes I can.
No you can't. Yes I can.
No you can't. Yes I can.
No you can't. Yes I can.
No you can't. Yes I can.
No you can't. Yes I can.
I can jump a hurdle. I can wear a girdle.
I can knit a sweater. I can fill it better.
I can do most anything. Can you bake a
pie?
No. Neither can I. Anything you can sing, I
can sing sweeter.
I can't sing anything sweeter
than you.
No you can't, yes I can
No you can't, yes I can
No you can't, yes I can
No you can't, oh yes I can
No you can't can't can't. Yes I can can can
No you can't
Yes I can (unison)
you
