14-Year-Old Critic Reviews Dataland, the World's First AI Arts Museum

Milosh Soberman, a 14-year-old who dislikes art, visited Dataland, billed as the world's first Museum of AI Arts. The experience proved disorienting: in each screen-filled room, a neck-worn device sprays cheap cologne, and the intense immersion can cause nausea and epileptic seizures. The exhibition's theme was nature, technology, and their mutual influence. One room continuously zoomed into canyons with rivers from a bird's-eye view; despite its beauty, Soberman found it akin to AI-generated wallpapers with no variety, though he conceded that if made by humans it would seem like the greatest media on the planet. At the start, the art prioritized how it was displayed over what was displayed. The final room generated a short video based on visitors' actions in the building; Soberman received an anticlimactic clip of slime and a blurry leaf. He still considered that final room the most impressive piece in the exhibition. His broader stance on AI is negative—he dislikes it for taking jobs and notes he cannot use it in school for subjects it has already overtaken. Ultimately, he found the museum an interesting and cool concept despite the disappointment.