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I've started to see more and more large language model interest (usually referred to as AI) in the contemporary art world. The language used around it--terms like AI, 'cognitive technologies', etc--are misleading at best and deeply concerning and dangerous imo. new media art/art+tech/etc has been so captured by the tech industry "progress at all costs" mindset that new tech is seen as good or neutral, critiques often ending up in the "more genderfluid drone operators" mode of so-called ethics.

As artists in the 21st century we need to be, and are unavoidably, political. The complexities of that in the current context aren't lost on me ... but this uncritical acceptance of new tech because it's "cool", or under the guise of research (i.e. "this residency aims to research the creative affordances of cognitive technologies") is disturbing and dystopic.

Personally, I'm conflicted about how much I can publicly call out organizations (or people) that are doing this before I sink my own career, but it's getting harder and harder to worry about that.