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Mark Lamster on what happens when the AI tool ChatGPT reviews the Perot Museum.

Perhaps foolishly, I thought I’d throw down the gauntlet and see how ChatGPT fares as an architecture critic. Being generous, I fed it the architectural equivalent of a hanging curve — a singular local icon that tends to draw strong opinions.with an emphasis on its relationship to its urban context.”

[This is factually inaccurate; the main entry faces an internal court, not the street, and is obscured from the street in several directions.][Debatable. The closest DART rail stop is a bit of a hike, but that’s more the fault of the city than the museum.] [This is misleading. The rooftop garden is inaccessible to the public, so it doesn’t encourage visitors to engage with anything. More to the point, the terraces that visitors can access are shielded from the street.]

The late Ada Louise Huxtable, dean of American architectural critics, titled a 1976 collection of her columns, the implication being that criticism requires physical experience of the subject matter. But visiting a building in person isn’t possible if the critic isn’t a person at all.

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