The best of those human-written stories stunned me with 1) unique methods of viewing the world , 2) linguistic originality, 3) inimitable details that could come only from personal experience. Other stories have been written deftly but lacked these elements of originality and surprise. AI is an excellent mimic and quick learner and would possibly simply write strong works in recognizable modes, and with linguistic experimentation if prompted, however — I think — will lack true insight and experience. Most in danger are business genres with simply recognizable kinds and tropes. Even one thing like autofiction with its ruminating first-person narrators is well mimicked — but what will be lacking, I’m guessing, is real imaginative and prescient from living in a selected bodily world.
What’s on at the Philadelphia Museum, public art on the High Line, the new M+ art museum in West Kowloon, “Pursuit of Porcelain” at Ferrin Gallery, …