Daily Newsletter A diatribe against AI-generated art writing, MIT professors bedazzle security cameras, and Art Basel Paris goes into lockdown.

October 21, 2026 — 4 min read

It’s not just a problem. It’s a travesty . AI in art writing, I mean — and if those words made you instinctively cringe, then you get it, because that “It’s not X, it’s Y” sentence construction is just one of the many hallmarks of artificially generated writing. Speaking as an editor, come on. We can tell. And we will judge, and let you know exactly how we feel about it. We might even write a diatribe against it, as Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia does today in a piece that is incisive, understanding, and original — a chatbot could never.

An opinion piece is one way to rail against the corporate-technological surveillance complex. Bedazzling security cameras is another, perhaps less orthodox, method.…