Detail of "Erasure by Aggregation" shows a traditional Hindu painting that is heavily pixelated, with large blocks obscuring key details, symbolizing cultural erasure and distortion by AI aggregation

(Generative) KI für Kultur- und Textdaten

Herausgegeben von Gerrit Brüning, Sarah Oberbichler, Cindarella Petz, Pia Schwarz

DOI: 10.17175/sb009

(Generative) KI für Kultur- und Textdaten. Vorwort

Gerrit Brüning

Sarah Oberbichler

Cindarella Petz

On the Explainability of Vision-Language Models in Art History

Stefanie Schneider

The paper examines how Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods can render the visual reasoning of a VLM – namely, CLIP – legible in art-historical contexts. It evaluates seven methods, combining zero-shot localization experiments with human interpretability studies.

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