Endless Artists

Endless Artists offers a timely and thoughtful guide to generative AI’s challenges for creativity, authorship, ownership, and public culture. Great reading for scholars, artists, educators, and cultural critics today. -- Qingwen Dong, Professor and Communication Graduate Director, University of the Pacific, USA
Endless Artists takes a firm stance against our ‘listened-to-half-a-podcast’ AI discourse, disassembling critiques and constructing better ones that bounce fluently (and entertainingly) from machine learning to mortal life. -- Patrick McGinty, author of Test Drive and Town College City Road
Endless Artists is a serious achievement, and one that will, I suspect, be a landmark in cultural studies of generative AI for some time to come. Prewitt and Wilson have a twofold mission. They begin by debunking the often backward-looking and circular conversation that seeks to use essentialist and Romantic concepts of art to attack the products of the technology, rejecting any claim of human artists’ essential genius. Clearing away these weaker arguments allows the authors to then move into a clear-sighted consideration of what the creeping kudzu of generative AI art and writing is actually doing to both our planet and our culture. The deep understanding of the technology and its effects on display in this volume makes the final call to action all the more persuasive. -- James Mackay, Associate Professor of Literature and Digital Cultures, European University Cyprus, Cyprus
Endless Artists deftly refutes abstract arguments against generative AI and provides a timely and necessary interrogation of art, artists, and agency in an era of ubiquitous generative AI and metastasizing data centers. -- Jeremy Tirrell, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA, co-PI of the Following Mechanical Turks project, and author of Disgustatory! A Gothic Rhetoric of Consumption