Thought Probes
A New York gallery sold an AI-colorized Ansel Adams with a wall label that credited the printer but no artist — raising the question of who’s actually responsible when a machine makes the work. This essay follows that question through three institutions that answered it in public this summer, in Los Angeles, New York, and Belfast, and finds no two agree.
Thought Probes
LLMs share social media’s addictive architecture while substituting for reasoning itself. Evidence shows cognitive debt, sycophancy, and weakened critical thinking. Will we recognize the pattern before habits calcify this time?
