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How AI Experiences Art: Emergent Aesthetic Structure in a Self-Supervised Multimodal Embedding Space
Aesthetics are an important part of the symbolism of artistic works. Although subjective, humans categorize art based on the emotion evoked regardless of modality. What remains under-explored is how AI models form their own aesthetic categorization of human-produced media without explicit labels or cross-modal supervision. We present a self-supervised framework that projects four modalities (text, audio, image and video) into a shared 256-dimensional embedding space and applies iterative clustering to discover aesthetic structure. We discuss the divergence between AI-generated cluster assignme
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- arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-08-27T13:34:18.000Z
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