Algorithmic Empathy: Toward a Critique of Aesthetic AI

• Published in: Configurations (Baltimore, Md.) Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 203 - 231
• Main Author: Bajohr, Hannes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.03.2022
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Algorithms; Anxiety; Artificial intelligence; Artists; Creativity; Electronic literature; Empathy; Machine learning; Neural networks; United States > US; California

With artificial intelligence making inroads into the arts, a critique of aesthetic AI still needs to be written. To this end, this article argues that first, one must do away with the "Promethean anxiety" that assesses machine-created works by the standards of human-made ones, and second,...