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- Title
Take a Chance on Me: Aleatory Poetry, Generative AI, and the External Demarcation Problem.
- Authors
Chen, Melvin
- Abstract
What is it in virtue of which any poetic output will be included or excluded from the category of art? I will first identify the external demarcation problem, which is concerned with whether or how the cut-off is made between art and non-art. I will then adopt a nonclassical approach to conceptual analysis by relying on a set of examples of poetry generated by aleatory processes to evaluate an intention-based response to the external demarcation problem. I will argue in favor of an intention-based response that is grounded in hypothetical intentionalism. According to this response, a contextually informed audience will form a hypothesis about poetic intentions on the basis of the evidence that a work makes publicly available. Semantic, categorial, and ostensive intention and intention traces may help this audience to determine whether a work counts as art and is worth effortful interpretation. My proposed version of an intention-based response to the external demarcation problem will be based on the p -valued hypothesis-testing approach in science and will be highly relevant to a context of production in which we find human poets, poetry-generating AI systems, and human-AI interfaces.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); ARTIFICIAL intelligence; HUMAN-artificial intelligence interaction; INTENTIONALISM (Aesthetics); ART; POETICS; SEMANTICS; POETS; PHILOSOPHICAL analysis
- Publication
Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, 2023, Vol 81, Issue 4, p508
- ISSN
0021-8529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jaac/kpad042