2025/10/01

Brian Droitcour Laments How AI Flattens Museum Collections

● 01/10/2025
“Fifteen years ago, museums were busy digitizing their holdings so they could be accessible online. Now, MoMA is opening its data up for use as raw material, not to index artworks, so that audiences can see how they’re unique, but to render them as training sets, ready for endless reorganization.”
– Critic Brian Droitcour, on museums becoming data centres that grind their collections into digital slurry. “MoMA has opted in so hard to AI that it’s another way of opting out—gliding over what’s happening now on the smooth, opaque surface of the tech demo.”
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