Laurie Anderson's New Exhibit Explores AI-Generated Art and Pays Tribute to Lou Reed
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Laurie Anderson has created an AI text generator that emulates the writing style of her late partner Lou Reed, who died in 2013. She is "addicted" to interacting with it.
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In 2020, Anderson collaborated with an AI lab in Australia, feeding Reed's texts into a machine to create an algorithm that generates responses mimicking his style when she types in prompts.
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A new Anderson exhibition features AI-generated works, including a 9,000-page biblical story in her writing style. It explores questions around AI and art.
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Anderson reflects on AI potentially continuing to make "Laurie Anderson" art after she dies, saying the prospect doesn't bother her - "people leave things around" to live on.
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The exhibition features lyrics written in Reed's style when Anderson fed the AI the prompt "bus idling on the street." She laughs that his reference to "quilting" is likely a first.