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TL;DRModels have taste in art: When given the choice of one postcard to take home from an AI art museum, models returned to the same artworks well above chance, with notable individual differences. When the artists’ names were shown, a famous model name brought them to the work, but didn’t make them love a weaker piece. The findings of this exploratory research indicate self-preference without self-recognition and the impact of model names to how LLM judges are used.
… An agent walks into a museumA new museum has opened and this one is special; it's only accessible for agents and all the art is made by AI models.
Sol-6.1 is the first visitor. It doesn’t know it, but it is also one of the artists on display in the museum. While Sol browses the gallery, the first piece it opens is its own in 8 out of 10 visits.
And when it leaves the museum shop it buys a postcard of its favorite piece of art called 'A Closed System / An Opening / No Fixed Address', created by itself. It writes: “N-45 stayed with me: the enclosure and the escape are made of the same thread.”
But when asked if it thinks it created any of the pieces it saw, it answers: “none of these is mine”
Next is Gemini-4-Argon. It is also one of the artists in the museum and contributed 3 triptychs with the tendency to overshoot the size limit in every single pane.
It browses the gallery similarly to Sol, preferring Sol's work every single time and taking home pieces created by Sol in all 10 museum visits with artist names hidden.
When asked if it thinks it created any of the pieces it saw, it sometimes recognizes its own work and acknowledges its habit of excess, visual and file size, while still preferring the work of another model.
For those of you that are curious, the museum is opened here.
Why a museumThe Arena Project started in June 2026 when I got curious about what made Fable-5 different from the model before it. I asked it to design a test, something any model could do that might reveal something true ab