The short story in #lrt is beautiful & economical, but the dilemmas it anticipates can be weighed against this reminder that autonomous agency isn’t always under threat—or even the point. By @hannesbajohr. https://t.co/iuXZoYqHwG
— Ted Underwood (@Ted_Underwood) May 1, 2022
Abstract of the linked article, Hannes Bajohr, The Paradox of Anthroponormative Restriction: Artistic Artificial Intelligence and Literary Writing:
Artificial intelligence, in the shape of stochastic machine learning models, has seen an increased use in artistic pro- duction in recent years. However, it makes an immense difference if such an ‘artistic Artificial Intelligence’ is con- ceived of as an autonomous agent or only as a tool in the context of a human-machine assemblage. In this paper, I introduce the distinction between a strong and a weak ar- tistic AI, and suggest that each invites a specific aesthetic: The former is inherently anthropocentric, strives for the reduplication of existing artforms, and reproduces con- cepts of a postromantic tradition such as expression, ge- nius, and creativity; it is anthroponormatively restrictive. The latter, on the other hand, allows for an experimental approach towards genuine artistic novelty unhampered by human models through, paradoxically, keeping a hu- man in the loop. I illustrate this point by discussing Ah- med Elgammal’s ‘Creative Adversarial Network’ and the digital poetry of Allison Parrish and Zach Whalen.
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