“For now, AI doesn’t exist autonomously. Humans make art with AI models trained on humans. We train our own models on our own datasets. I see making models as art.”
– American singer and composer
Holly Herndon, firing back at Ted Chiang’s recent
New Yorker essay, in which the science fiction writer suggests AI has no capacity for making true art. Celebrated for her pioneering
AI voice model experimentation with partner
Mat Dryhurst, Herndon bolsters her argument for the artistic merits of AI with a sample of hauntingly beautiful “sumbliminAI lyrics” that she writes “took 18 months to prompt.”
