AI slop creeping into contemporary art: “The new Olalekan Jeyifous exhibition at the Walker Art Center is almost all AI content and there’s no disclosure letting guests know this”
Quoted from the Minneapolis subreddit:
"I have a feeling the curator for this exhibit, Taylor Jasper, is either complicit or got duped"
More context:
"I brought an out of town visitor to the Walker Art Center this week and we were disappointed to see so much AI garbage throughout the new Olalekan Jeyifous exhibit, “Hydricosmic Litanies”. There were three looping videos that were obviously AI along with many graphics that appeared to be AI generated. WTF? Nowhere in the exhibit did they let guests know that Jeyifous used AI, which feels so shady and wrong.
I talked to a Walker staffer and they said they’re not allowed to provide an official statement but agreed that AI was clearly used in many of the pieces. I was told even the “sculptures” in the exhibit were machined from AI-generated 3D models.
It’s sickening to me that the Walker has this crap (I won’t call it art) on display and misleads people into believing it was actually made by a person. I usually like the Walker’s exhibits but this is a huge step in the wrong direction.
See for yourself: https://www.walkerart.org/whats-on/olalekan-jeyifous-hydricosmic-litanies/"