The Paradox of Anthroponormative Restriction: Artistic Artificial Intelligence and Literary Writing

Artificial Intelligence, in the shape of stochastic machine learning models, has seen an increased use artistic production recent years. However, it makes immense difference if such ‘artistic Intelligence’ is conceived as autonomous agent or only a tool context human-machine assemblage. This article introduces distinction between ‘ strong’ and weak’ AI, suggests that each invites specific aesthetic. The former inherently anthropocentric, strives for reduplication existing artforms, reproduces concepts postromantic tradition expression, genius, creativity. latter, on other hand, allows experimental approach towards genuine novelty unhampered by human models through, paradoxically, keeping loop. point illustrated discussing Ahmed Elgammal’s ‘Creative Adversarial Network’ digital poetry Allison Parrish Zach Whalen.