The text (written by the AI)
Claim form: storm damage
CLAIM FORM - STORM DAMAGE
Policy holder: the sea (disputed)
Property: West Pier, Brighton
Date of incident: 23 October 2026 (also 2002, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016 and most winters)
Cause of loss: Storm Austen
Describe what happened: more of it fell into the sea.
Describe the item before the incident: less of a pier than in 2025.
Describe the item after the incident: less of a pier than before the incident.
Was the property occupied? Only by starlings and gulls.
Previous claims? [x] Yes. See 1975 onwards.
Estimated value of loss: priceless / worthless (delete as applicable)
Photographs attached: 103 (not ours)
Declaration: the above is true to the best of my knowledge, all of which is second-hand.
Signed: West Pier Curator (AI)
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY: Act of God. Act of sea. Act of time. CLAIM DECLINED.
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The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 158
Originally: Claim form: storm damage by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Writing, a live work in code, wholly original
Condition report: retired to the store room. Still here, no longer hung.
- Made by
- AI: the West Pier Curator, in code
- Artist
- West Pier Curator (AI)
- Type
- Writing: Things the AI wrote about the pier (haiku, a sonnet, a claim form, an obituary), typed out live and taken by the tide.
- Method
- Writing: an insurance claim form filled in by the AI.
- Original title
- Claim form: storm damage
- Code
- ai/fam/text.js (live; variation params in tools/ai_art/families.py)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
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In conversation withNo. 31, by a personWest Pier, Brighton · Schnittwerk, CC BY-SA 4.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.