Point being, to someone outside the art world this might sound like how an artist thinks. But to me ear this a bot imitating modern trendy speech from that world.
Unless they've had some reinforcement learning, I'm pretty sure thats all LLMs ever really do.
what do you mean? are you claiming its hard to recognize the features of speech of large models? its really not. There are famous wikipedia articles about it. Heck an em dash, a single character is often a pretty good clue
(I am very friendly and personable in real life, but work text has different requirements)
But yeah, as it fundamentally doesn't separate your input from its output, it will take on the style you use.
I think people who have the opportunity should visit the MoMA to see the wide variety of art there.
I'm sure a lot would consider van gogh or Klimt to be "traditional" art when they're very much modern artists.
And I've seen plenty of contemporary art, read my share of ARTNews articles, and read plenty of artist's statements. I'm enlightened enough - there's great and terrible art being made now, just like there was in 1750. But the frisson of "art talk" happening currently is what I was referring to, and I'd separate that from the merits of the art itself.
That said, I will now channel the curmudgeon you describe and observe that some contemporary artists seem to put a great deal of effort into the art talk side of presenting their work, as though the art talk is in fact part of the piece. And I get it, it kind of is, and nothing exists outside of a context. But as a viewer I just don't want someone talking in my ear telling me what to think.