With The Artificial Literature Laboratory, we explore Large Language Models (LLMs) not as services, assistants, or all-knowing agents, but as instruments for creative writing. The custom-built interface allows to interact with the LLM via the physical hardware, which enables the generative process in the first place, and invites visitors to compose a short text with it.
Replacing the optimization-driven logic that dominates current AI use with an experimental interaction process rooted in traditions of electronic literature, constrained writing, and chance-based poetics, collaborative writing here is no prompt-in, text-out routine. Shaped through its development by a collective of artists, designers and engineers, the installation instead engages with the generative logic of LLMs through the human writing process and vice versa, inviting reflection on what it means to create something new.
