Arriagada use terms like novel and valuable to define creativity. This is true and interesting, especially considering everything I learned this week—specifically around how AI-generated art gives off a sense of emptiness. I would now define creativity as the unique ability to move the audience with one’s work.If I had to challenge any part of the definition, it would be the new aspect. In class, we spoke about how even Shakespeare’s work was drawn from other traditions, and how rock music was drawn from blues. My mother always says, “There’s nothing new under the sun,” which means everything draws on inspiration from the old or is a manipulation of it especially nowadays.

I asked Perplexity to “write a poem that rhymes,” a very generic prompt, and it produced A Journey Beneath the Sky. Then I asked it to take that same poem and, using Shakespeare’s voice, rewrite it as a sonnet.

I really do not know what to say about this because I feel like elements of the original poem were lost, and I ended up with a completely different poem in sonnet form, full of “thy” and “thou.” Interestingly, the second time around, it explained how the sonnet structure “mirrors the Bard’s themes of cosmic wonder, mortal limitation, and the interplay of light and shadow.”

To me, this is unsatisfactory. I think AI can be creative, but it requires extensive prompting—and even then, it feels soulless. It can be used as a tool, not the author and finisher of an entire artwork

Boden, Margaret A. “Creativity and Artificial Intelligence.” Artificial Intelligence, vol. 103, no. 1, Aug. 1998, pp. 347–56, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0004-3702(98)00055-1.

Arriagada, Leonardo, and Gabriela Arriagada-Bruneau. “Ai?S Role in Creative Processes: A Functionalist Approach.” Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, and New Media Theories, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 77–110, https://philarchive.org/rec/ARRARI-2.