AI, Bullshit and Art Speak: How the art world prepared us for the age of AI slop

The author connects Jeffrey Snover's description of LLMs as "bullshit engines" that produce plausible-shaped text with total indifference to truth to the art world's "International Art English," the opaque press-release vernacular analyzed by Alix Rule and David Levine in 2012. Having run SFMOMA curatorial texts through a natural language processor and found them more complex than legal language, the author argues that IAE trained audiences to accept text shaped like meaning but containing none long before LLMs produced it.