Erich is a man who knows exactly what he wants. In life and in art. The picture created with the help of AI does not meet his requirements. Erich is an old resident of Hinz&Kunzt. For decades, the slim 70-year-old with long gray hair has been selling the magazine at the Lohbrügg market and for more than 20 years at the Bergedorf weekly market. He has been an artist and politically active for even longer: He paints, is committed to environmental protection, and keeps politicians on their toes with demands to fight homelessness.

Erich enters the darkened studio in the best of moods, where the AI experts are already sitting at their computers. The plan is to feed the AI with terms that are developed together in conversation. At least, that’s how it went with the other Hinz&Künztler:innen. But Erich has other, very concrete ideas. He brought along a collage he had created himself, which he would like to see implemented. It is the head of a North American indigenous man floating above a lake, surrounded by mountains. But he doesn’t like the results that can be seen on the computer. “Details like the buffalo and especially my unknown planet in the background were missing. And that one was important to me because it represents how we treat our Earth.”