Summer Student Scoop: Where I stand on artificial intelligence

classroom. This past semester, I was assigned a project in school in which we were able

to use artificial intelligence to generate photos for a graphic novel we were tasked to

create, but the limitations were astonishing and perhaps surprising. There were certain

things that artificial intelligence would refuse to generate. For example, in the story I

was telling, I asked AI to generate a photo of a child upset after an argument with their parents, which AI refused to create.

As I’m sure many people have by now, I’ve experimented with AI before I knew the

environmental impact it has on the planet. I’ve asked ChatGPT to edit photos, such as making my dog Odie look like a police officer, or removing people in the background of a photo before I went to post it on Instagram.

I’ve had classmates who have said they used AI in their assignments, who had to face

sanctions for violating academic integrity. I’ve personally been asked to incorporate AI

into my assignments such as using it to help with outlines in certain assignments, which I felt was both pointless and harmful to the environment.

I was also able to use ChatGPT to plan my trip to Boston a few years ago.

I had to cross-check and fact-check multiple websites to ensure that the information it gave me was accurate and not something that was pulled from Reddit or outdated.

I’ve noticed how the rise of AI has led to a decrease in creativity among myself and my peers. When I go to consume art, whether it be a television show, music, or an online

article, I look for something that I can connect to.

As more and more people begin to incorporate the use of AI into their everyday lives, it distracts from the creativity that people crave when interacting with certain media forms.

By taking away the part of the message that makes it human, it feels as though the future we’re headed towards is closer to an episode of Black Mirror than the idealistic society portrayed in The Jetsons.

As AI continues to advance, my stance stays the same. AI shouldn’t be used to create art, or to enhance or expand on someone’s original thoughts. If it has to be used at all, I think it should be used as a learning tool, such as to explain things in a way that is easier for others to understand, not to create things at the expense of an individual’s creativity.