What current AI-related issues, developments, or decisions do you find especially relevant to contemporary society? Craft a short post to give your classmates an overview of the issues involved and why it’s so important.

AI is used in the hiring process these days, and it frequently scans our resumes. Many of these models are trained on biased data, which reinforces or even worsens existing inequalities. For instance, hiring algorithms may favor male applicants if trained on historical data that favored male applicants. Similarly, algorithms may favor white applicants over people of color.

Given how AI is becoming ingrained in daily life, this topic is particularly important today. In the future, only AI might be used in the hiring process. These systems have the potential to covertly support widespread systemic discrimination if we don’t confront bias today. It draws attention to how urgently inclusive data practices, accountability, and openness are needed in the development of AI.

I can imagine using AI-generated art. Like, while brainstorming and developing ideas. Without spending hours on preliminary drawings, writers, designers, or artists might utilize AI to produce mood boards swiftly, come up with visual ideas, or sketch rough drafts. AI art may also be helpful in social media and marketing, where short, eye-catching pictures are frequently needed for banners, posters, and background images, as originality is not that important in banners and posters. 

However, there are several situations in which I would never think about utilizing AI-generated art. Which includes the creation of personal fine arts, such as family paintings or wedding pictures, where the human artist’s emotional depth and connection are crucial. Additionally, as AI may overlook crucial details or inadvertently misrepresent spiritual meanings, I would refrain from employing AI-generated art for cultural or heritage-based artworks, particularly when they deal with customs and histories.

The use of AI can be characterized by the extent to which it replaces individual learning and creativity. We use AI in our professional and personal lives so much that, in some way, we undermine our creativity. AI can be useful, for instance, when brainstorming or outlining ideas, but if professionals or students depend on it to handle all of the thinking or writing, it becomes a crutch that impedes growth. Generally, AI should complement human labor rather than take its place.

This week’s readings made me realize I should not rely on AI to do my work. I should only use it for brainstorming ideas. For example, we should not rely on AI to summarize a reading or a paper. As it can miss out on little details that we need to know.

Over time, a workforce that is tech-savvy, morally anchored, and creatively empowered can be shaped with the help of carefully planned AI policies. In the future, AI might start training humans for their job roles.

Arriagada used terms like novelty, surprise, and value to define creativity. I agree that creativity holds value, and it often comes from emotions and experiences. Which can be seen lacking in arts, poems, and stories written by AI.

Today in class, we gave different prompts to ChatGPT and Gemini. At first, we gave a simple prompt with not many details. We prompted ChatGPT and Gemini to write a poem about love, and they gave a very generic poem, and a lot of the wordings didn’t make much sense. But Gemini gave a better poem than ChatGPT. Then we prompted ChatGPT and Gemini to write a haiku about falling in love with a person. I think ChatGPT gave a better haiku than poem; however, the haiku given by Gemini ended abruptly.

This was the haiku written by ChatGPT

eyes met in stillness—
a world bloomed between heartbeats,
soft and sudden spring.

This was the haiku written by Gemini

Heart skips a quick beat,
World in new, vibrant colors,
Smiling just because.

I don’t think the poem and haiku written by ChatGPT and Gemini were creative. It is very generic and lacks emotion and value. This experiment shifted my perspective of AI’s creativity. Now, I believe the same poem or haiku written by a human would be much more creative than the ones written by an AI.

Today in class, I gave a prompt to ChatGPT to help me brainstorm a research question. I used the flipped interaction, which improved the response. ChatGPT asked me multiple questions, which helped me brainstorm my research question. Also, I was given links to the sources and was pretty surprised that those sources existed.

For the research topic, I made ChatGPT create a presentation; however, the speaker notes had more information than the slides. I believe that additional information on the slides would have been better.

I realized responses provided by ChatGPT depend on how well we ask them questions. It gives more accurate answers if our question is clear and well-structured. However, most of the answers given by ChatGPT are either too long or have less information.

During my group’s research, I discovered that AI diminishes our creativity. It lacks human artistic expression and experiences. Hence, it takes away the originality. Since AI is capable of creating complex and striking pieces of art, it lacks human consciousness and emotional depth, all essential components of artistic expression. Because AI tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney can mimic artists’ styles without permission, potentially undermining their creative endeavors and financial livelihoods, this has raised concerns within the art community.

There are also drawbacks to using AI, like legally in the US, copyright protection for AI-generated works is difficult because U.S. laws demand human authorship.

After group shareouts, I also had a different perspective on AI since they talked about how AI tends to make responses longer and more wordy than they should be.

Reference: https://www.neilsahota.com/ai-art-creativity-controversy-and-the-question-of-originality/#:~:text=of%20existing%20styles.-,AI%2Dgenerated%20Art%3A%20Key%20Takeaways,experiences%20that%20distinguish%20human%20artistry.