Art Review Generator

The Art Review Generator is a natural language processing tool and text generator. It takes a set of words as a prompt and generates a medium-length set of sentences that approximate the training data, which is 57 years of art reviews from Artforum.

The tool is not artificial intelligence in the true sense, but it is often used as an example of AI in mainstream news. The interpreter has no understanding of the prompt or training data meaning; it generates text based on deep matrices of probability, using a billion examples of word sequences.

Modern art reviews were chosen for training because the language is distinctive and unique to human expression. Descriptions of art include intent, emotion, technique, and impact. Art reviews can also contain heavy academic and esoteric jargon that challenges traditionally trained language models.

The mistakes made by the generator are considered as interesting as successes. Generating plausible sentences has been achievable for a while, but the results here show a beginning of larger language constructs that simulate a thesis and supporting statements. Loops and glitches can be poetic.

New lessons about the original texts can be learned through use of this tool. Bias, prejudice, and judgment can be found in some generated results because the originals use the same language. The training process may also have its own effect. The language of art reviews has changed over the years, and this generator combines perspectives from multiple decades in novel and sometimes problematic ways.