What can multimodal AI actually see in William Blake's visionary art? This pilot study finds that AI reliably retrieves Blake's objects and motifs but falters, measurably, at his personal iconography, mapping precisely where machine assistance ends, and scholarly interpretation begins.

Rapid changes to platform affordances quickly render digital tools and data collection methods obsolete. This article examines these challenges within the context of Twitter (X) following its 2022 acquisition by Elon Musk, and the subsequent limiting of access to the API for data collection.