Excerpt 1:

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"In the last two years, many artists are choosing to outsource copy editing or the entire creative process of writing about their work to large language models like ChatGPT and Claude. In reading hundreds of artist statements and funding proposals this year, I have perceived a decline in authenticity. I have seen an increasing amount of clunkiness, awkwardness, disrupted flow. Some artistic voices seem less authentic, more detached from the work itself, lacking in nuance, a form of synthetic-speak. Some are missing this ‘humanness’; evidence of the fallibility of human beings, our feelings, our opinions, our lived experiences.

 

"A decline in linguistic literacy can extend to art itself; a degradation of visual literacy – where bodies of work seem more haphazard, less cohesive, tenuous. AI becomes the hole in the donut; an absence of human artistic voice. AI is changing the toolbox and disrupting the traditions. I am not advocating the abstinence of AI in arts writing – that horse has bolted – yet I wish to advocate for a slowing down, a carefulness, and a tempered approach to using AI for these purposes."

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Excerpt 2:

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"Rather thank thinking about AI as, ‘what harm could it do?; can we flip that around to think about, ‘what good can it do?’ We can look at AI as a site for opportunity, for radical imagination.

 

"It’s one giant semiotic experiment… our way to think about systems of language, how we establish and perform nomenclatures – or how we label things. It is an experiment in how we communicate and can care for one another. Humans are sentient beings, inherently curious. Beyond thinking of AI as a tool for imagination that humans use, what if we considered it as a form of intelligence to collaborate with? It can exist as an opportunity for us to be less anthrocentric." 

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- Madeline Yale Preston