Unprompted

Unprompted is a gamified art experience built around machine-generated images. Each artwork has a hidden prompt, and you try to uncover it by identifying elements in the image and entering words. You earn points for correct matches, can guess as many times as you like, and skipped artworks return later.

Guess the prompts

If you are unsure what an artwork depicts, you can spend 10 points to reveal one word from its prompt. Completing prompts builds progress that gives you access to gifts in the gift shop, where the artworks appear on a range of products.

Galleries and reflections

Completing the prompts for certain artworks triggers AI-generated text descriptions, offering another look at the associations made by machine learning. At the start of each gallery visit, broader AI-generated statements about AI’s future role in art and society gradually build a background narrative and reframe the artworks as you progress.

Unprompted was created in early 2022, when generative AI images were more visibly strange. It explores play, reflection and curiosity by making the machine’s role in creating content explicit.