I believe AI is capable of creative writing this was my stance before and after our readings and lab in class. I think that its creative just in a different way then we are. AI is like a very skilled collaborator that brings tools to the table but needs you to steer the ship. It is really bad at creative writing when it is just given a broad topic or statement, but asking or giving the AI specific details allows it to work much better. I asked ChatGPT to “write a brief shakespearean style poem about traveling the world ” and the photo below was the result.
I think that it did a good job of using the language I wanted to but this poem is very bland and kind of all over the place. On another note I asked AI to “please generate 3 fictional relatable characters for my screen play” the photo below was the result.
I found that the responses showed very little bias and gave me a good verity of characters. Which was surprising considering the past reading and promoting that we had done before. I believe this happened because, recently I have worked with chat on a few intergroup relations articles that discussed bias and inclusivity.
Loi, M., Viganò, E., & van der Plas, L. (2020). The societal and ethical relevance of computational creativity(arXiv:2007.11973v1). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11973
Your reflection gets at how weird it is to use AI for creative work. I agree with your point about how AI improves with better prompts, AI also works better when it’s “trained” by the user.
I think you made a solid point about how AI can be creative. I think it just not in the same way humans are. I think it needs clear direction to actually produce something good. When you gave it specific prompts, it worked a lot better, which really shows that AI is more like a helpful tool than a fully independent artist.