https://dtc-wsuv.org/mrowland24/rowland-final-ai-project/

1. Project Summary:

Project Idea: “Movie Matchmaker” aims to revolutionize the entertainment industry by creating a personalized movie and TV show recommendation service. Utilizing a sophisticated AI algorithm, this service will analyze users’ viewing histories across various streaming platforms and recommend new content based on mood, genre, and occasion. Sales on specific media and platforms will also be shown to provide the best user experience.

Vision Statement: To create a highly personalized viewing experience that caters to individual preferences and enhances content discoverability across streaming platforms. Think of it as the already existing AI on platforms like Netflix that give you recommendations based on what you’ve already watched and your ratings, but for all different streaming platforms, as well as possibly physical media.

Skills and Technologies: The project will leverage machine learning, natural language processing, and data analysis to develop a robust recommendation system. Skills in software development, AI modeling, and user interface design will be crucial.

2. Needs Assessment:

Sector Analysis: In the entertainment industry, there’s a growing need for more sophisticated recommendation systems as the number of available streaming options and content continues to expand.

AI’s Role: AI can address these needs by implementing advanced pattern recognition to suggest content that matches users’ historical preferences and current mood, enhancing user satisfaction and platform engagement. Essentially, the AI will get to know you and your entertainment media preferences and will give you more content to watch based on its impressions.

3. Skills and Technology Overview:

Required Technologies:

– Machine Learning (ML): For predictive analytics and recommendation algorithms.

– Natural Language Processing (NLP): To analyze user reviews and feedback.

– Database Management: To handle large volumes of user data and content metadata.

Skill Assessment:

– Current Skills: Basic programming knowledge, understanding of ML concepts.

– Development Needs: Advanced ML training, NLP techniques, full-stack development for app integration. Web designers and developers.

4. Learning and Development Plan:

Learning Strategies:

– Enroll in specialized online courses in AI and ML (e.g., Coursera, Udacity).

– Participate in workshops and webinars focusing on AI applications in entertainment.

– Engage in project-based learning to apply skills in real-world scenarios.

– Continue to take college courses related to the use of AI and web development tools.

Budget:

– Online courses: $500

– Workshops: $300

– Materials and software: $200

5. Application and Impact:

Application: The skills and technologies will be used to develop the Movie Matchmaker app, integrating with various streaming platforms to provide a seamless and personalized user experience. The applications and website should contain customizable elements like choosing the colors and style of a user’s interface so that it feels like a personalized tool and not just another app.

Impact:

– Beneficiaries: Individual users who seek more tailored entertainment options, as well as an experience that takes the work out of having to think or search for what to watch.

– Societal: Promotes a more engaging and satisfying entertainment consumption experience, potentially increasing cultural access and diversity in viewing habits.

6. Project Timeline:

– Months 1-3: Complete educational courses and initial technology setup.

– Months 4-6: Development and testing of the AI algorithm.

– Months 7-9: App development and integration with streaming platforms.

– Month 10: Beta testing with selected users.

– Month 11-12: Full launch and marketing.

7. Budget:

– Learning and Development: $1,000

– Software Subscriptions: $500 (APIs and server costs)

– Development and Marketing: $2,000

– Total: $3,500

8. Evaluation and Reflection:

Evaluation Metrics:

– User adoption rates and retention metrics.

– Accuracy of the recommendation system (user satisfaction surveys).

– Feedback on usability and functionality of the app.

Reflection:

– Monthly review meetings to discuss progress, challenges, and adjustments needed.

– Post-launch, a comprehensive review to evaluate the overall success and areas for improvement.

– Easy in-app and on-site bug reporting and an entire team dedicated to responding to and fixing problems on these report tickets as they come.

AI tools could be used to start a creative AI business by helping you to brainstorm ideas, develop upon them, and execute them. For example, a business having to do with AI content creation could have its name, business plan, etc. generated through an AI text generator like ChatGPT and then elaborated upon by the actual human developer. Human input would ultimately be the difference between creating an AI business that is generic or unique enough to stand out in whatever industry or category it falls into.

Some ideas for AI businesses that I think would be cool to work on are: 

• An AI character creation tool that comes up with character names, appearances, stats, and personality traits. I think a way to make this unique would be to add a filter for specific games and their lore and it would generate you a character that has qualities that would match that world.
• A branding design tool that could generate names, color stories, mood boards, and logo ideas for businesses, as a start to coming up with their brand identity. To make this unique, one could go as far as to develop an AI tool that’s main objective is to generate logo designs based off of sketches or word prompts.
• A movie/TV show matchmaker tool that contains a database of all media of those types from all different platforms (Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc.) and ratings of all the ones you’ve watched before. It would give you recommendations on what to watch based on a variety of factors of your choice such as your mood, genre, the occasion (kids party, holidays, a date, etc.) This could also give a user recommendations based on sales on specific platforms or sales of certain movies or series’. I think that this idea is pretty unique on its own, due to it containing a variety of platforms. The technology already exists, but is usually isolated to whatever service you’re actively using.

Game by: Hailey Gebhart, Haili Kuanoni, and Mercedes Rowland

Play here: https://dtc-wsuv.org/mrowland24/game/

Are AI image-generation tools like Dall-E and Midjourney truly all-powerful and a threat to the livelihoods of trained artists?

In my experience, the tools themselves are somewhat repetitive and “dumb” with their generations unless you know how to work with them and create prompts that they can understand and emulate. This means that it isn’t as big of a threat to trained artists as I previously believed, but that doesn’t completely diminish artists’ fears. I will show examples of a bad prompt and its result vs. a good prompt. I’d also like to show an example of how AI can completely rip off a specific artist’s style to show how it can be threatening. Talking about how I had a hard time (and still do) speaking the AI tools’ languages will provide context to my experiences. It’s hard for me to make prompts with my existing, non-AI-related vocabulary. (The tools cannot always understand and produce work properly to the standards and quality of my vision.)

For the essay, I want to textually explain the creative question and my answer based on my experience with these tools and the class overall. For the final project, I’d like to heavily focus on how the quality of prompts is the difference between AI art generation tools being a threat to trained artists or not. I will give many examples, show how prompts evolve over time, and keep track of just how long (time-wise) it can take for an amateur like myself to generate the images that they envision. It might be cool to find an example online of an “expert” in these two tools and how their processes differ and how that affects the quality of their results as a comparison (if I’m allowed to do so, it will be properly cited and attributed, of course).  I’d like to present the final project as an edited video with my creative process narrated with the help of ElevenLabs. It will include photo generations, text prompts, and anything else that I think would be helpful to showcase the answer to my creative question.

The type of game that we went with was a collision game with shooting mechanics and minimal player controls (left and right arrow keys to move the gun and spacebar to shoot.) It has a sci-fi theme and the objective is to shoot UFOs out of the sky, while avoiding airplanes. As expected, I have mostly worked on the artistic side of the game, writing prompts to generate pixel-art images and for the electronic background music track. Chat-GPT had minimal input on the type of game that I wanted to work on because I already had a general idea of what I’d like to do, but it has helped every step of the way in producing the resulting product.

https://dtc-wsuv.org/mrowland24/ecliptix-website/

The first technique in Amy Goodchild’s article that I found to be interesting was “true random.” She cites atmospheric noise picked up by a radio or the visual output of lava lamps as examples. I like the idea of combining “natural” and “unnatural” forces in this way to create art because it doesn’t feel like it’s being completely taken over by computers or an algorithm and still has a somewhat organic, or, as she put it, “chaotic” feel to the process.

In general, I like the idea of having a specific set of rules to follow when making an art piece because it’s similar to how I create some of my own art. For example, I often have a spark of inspiration to create something specific. Whether that something contains certain colors or a certain subject varies, and then I can still allow myself to have the room to deviate slightly from that original inspiration to create something new. I’m also a person who likes to have structure for most aspects of my life, so that may be why these techniques with rules interest me.

Some of the examples of “natural systems” that Goodchild cites are more appealing to me than others. For example, the condensation cube does not appeal to me at all artistically, due to the simple fact that it can hardly be affected by the “creator” or artist at all. The result is almost entirely out of their hands. Whereas growing art like the bacteria sculptures or paintings and drawings contain some aspects of humanity that make them more interesting and valuable for me. At the end of the day, whether any of this interests a person is entirely up to personal preferences and individual perspectives.

At first, I used my GPT to create photos for this scene in my world, “Ecliptix,” but I was unsatisfied with my results and decided to swap over to Midjourney. Some of my photos were generated by combining photos from Midjourney with photos from Dall-E and then using the prompts that Midjourney gave to describe the hybrid photo. I expanded the scenes in Midjourney so that they were not in a square aspect ratio and imported them into Runway. In Runway, I used a combination of the paint brush and zoom tools to get the motion for my video. I used my world GPT and ElevenLabs to create the narration and used Suno to create my background “instrumental-electronic” track. This process took a lot of trial and error, and I’m hoping that I get better with these tools in the future, as I still struggle a lot with them.

https://dtc-wsuv.org/mrowland24/palm-shade-sway-website/

The moment in time that I want to capture for visual #3 is the school that children and teens go to once a day in my world, “Ecliptix.” To give some context and backstory, the school that kids attend is only held once a year, and all the information that they need is essentially uploaded into their brains over the course of about 8 hours. This is done once a year instead of all at once to allow the kids to absorb the information and not feel overwhelmed. Human kids have the ability to learn this way as well because of a chip that is inserted into their brains at birth. They basically go into a type of hibernation to allow for the information to be absorbed without having to take breaks to use the bathroom or eat.

In the first shot, I want to show the kids sitting down at their desks in their school uniforms, hooked up through wires from their heads to their teacher at the front of the classroom. The room has a sterile, almost hospital-like feeling and is white and gray in color. The shot will be from behind the students, and they will face forward toward their teacher. The teacher is a robot/AI woman standing in front of an all-glass wall that shows views of downtown Ecliptix. Next, I’d like to show the students “falling asleep” or into their trance-like state to begin the upload. Each shot will then look similar, with the city outside behind the glass wall changing. The lighting will gradually go from bright and early morning sunshine to a sunset. Cars will be flying around, people will be walking on the streets, and life will seemingly go on outside of the school while these kids are “learning.” I think it would also be cool to show the kids walking out of the classroom at the end, or to show them unhooking from the wires and leaving the school.

I’d like the visual style for this project to mirror that of my previous visual story. A similar art style, color palette, and overall mood and tone for each shot will be used. The soundtrack will not include voices, as I want the viewer to experience what it would be like for one of us to be in Ecliptix (since everyone there no longer communicates verbally due to evolution).  I want there to be some sound effects, such as the humming of electricity or the distant sound of the busy streets, heard from within the classroom. The background music will be ambient for the most part, and I’d like it to give the viewer/listener a slight feeling of unease.

I experienced some difficulty keeping consistency in my images for this assignment. Sometimes regenerations of photos would leave out certain details that I had already clarified in the configuration for the GPT (i.e., color palette, art style, etc.). I also had to fix my character’s appearance multiple times and ended up not using some really awesome photos because they weren’t consistent enough with my already existing photos and ideas. In order to create the character in particular, I went through a similar process to when I created the concept for this world in the first place, asking my GPT for details that it would need to get a clear picture of her. Once I answered those questions, I was also able to envision her as a character and what her appearance and personality would be like, which made it easier to tailor my world’s story to fit into her life. Overall, this was easily the most fun I’ve had so far with the photo generation, and I’m excited to do this again as a starting point for the video assignment.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KAxAs679Akbx2DzYIgXLUOcGj7AiX98jlq5LeZxq4-k/edit?usp=sharing

I think that AI cinema could open up a lot of opportunities for people outside of the film industry to make new and exciting cinematography, and that it could also be useful as a tool for those already within the industry. The biggest risk with AI cinema is the potential for people to lose their jobs. AI is already taking over tasks like scheduling, sorting, etc. that were traditionally jobs for actual people, but I don’t necessarily view this as being a bad thing. Cutting out those jobs that most likely require the least amount of skill and expertise can cut back on production costs and allow for smaller film makers and studios to produce more often or have the budget for better quality projects. 

The jobs that could be potentially lost within writing, directing, acting, etc. are more of a concern, in my opinion. Just as other artists do, these people spend their entire lives mastering their craft and finding their niche. To have all of that squashed by AI would be devastating. There is also the risk of deep-faking famous actors and voice actors for future cinematography without their consent, either while they’re alive or after they’ve passed away, and that poses another ethical concern.

These AI tools have and will inevitably further change the future of Hollywood entertainment forever. Artificial intelligence is changing a variety of industries, and I feel like the vast majority of them are not safe from exemption; therefore, there won’t be any for the film industry. Hollywood could sink or swim with these new tools, but that depends on how far people are willing to go with AI. Independent artists have the most to gain, because this could give them the edge to be more on par with Hollywood when it comes to production value, overall quality, editing, casting, etc. It will be interesting to ask myself these questions 5–10 years from now and see how the answers may differ due to developments.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LjKKgH3Ioz6IjaZlJ6XtpR_0al61FTVLuo4TTYniYFQ/edit?usp=sharing

In a distant future, Earth has evolved into a post-apocalyptic tableau where humanity’s remnants and advanced AI navigate survival within densely populated cities, virtually devoid of organic life. Amidst this stark landscape, a unique hybrid ivy, a fusion of technology and nature, thrives, symbolizing the enduring adaptability of life.

This world’s architecture, composed of an ultra-durable blend of concrete, metal, and glass, conceals transformative secrets. Buildings and objects alike, when bathed in artificial light, can be morphed into something entirely different by any entity within a quarter-mile radius. This phenomenon, a byproduct of artificial illumination, has unlocked unprecedented creativity but also sowed seeds of deception, as appearances can be radically altered, challenging perceptions of reality. These buildings are also structures that defy time and disaster. They are permanent and unchangeable giants that cannot be destroyed by any known means. 

The remnants of past architecture stand as somber reminders of a bygone era, now subject to the whims of those wielding the power of light. This capacity to alter matter extends to the very food that sustains life, with AI-crafted nutrients providing sustenance in forms limited only by imagination that are easily accessible and insanely cheap. Yet, beneath the surface of this technological marvel, a longing for Earth’s lost natural beauty persists, driving a movement to restore elements of the organic world, despite the omnipotent AI’s dominion.

The economy, under the gaze of this all-powerful AI leader, is invigorated by the innovative potential of artificial light. Hydroelectricity, durable construction materials, and user-generated data are pivotal, yet the true currency lies in the ability to transform matter, introducing a dynamic new market landscape.

Religion and education have been profoundly affected by this transformative technology. Covert adherence to ancient faiths merges with reverence for Earth’s lost natural splendor, facilitated by the same artificial light that enables the instant acquisition of knowledge. Education has been revolutionized, with knowledge being directly uploaded into individuals’ minds or systems, creating a uniformly educated society amidst whispers of inequality and information control. This has led to a society uniformly educated in theory but rife with undercurrents of discontent and allegations of information manipulation.

The advancement of technology has both enhanced and constrained life, with the power to alter matter introducing an element of unpredictability. While fostering cooperation, it also fuels conflict among humans, AIs, and hybrids, as the line between reality and illusion blurs.

Communication has evolved beyond words to encompass body language, telepathy, and digital texts. However, the capability to transform matter with light adds complexity to interactions, weaving a web of illusion that challenges the fabric of society and tests the boundaries of creativity and coexistence. In this world, nothing is as it seems under the artificial glow, casting a shadow of doubt on what is real and what is merely a trick of the light.

Here is the album cover and promotional poster for Palm Shade Sway’s ‘Lunar Reflections’. The design encapsulates the serene and mystical vibe of the album title, featuring a night scene with a palm tree silhouette, a luminous full moon, and its reflection across the calm sea, all under a star-sprinkled indigo sky. This cover mirrors the band’s unique blend of traditional reggae rhythms with global influences, set against their commitment to themes of environmental conservation, love, and unity.

Track List:

1. Moonlit Serenade
2. Shadows on the Shore
3. Echoes of the Tide
4. Crimson Waves
5. Beneath the Celestial
6. Whispers of the Night
7. Reflections in the Water
8. Swaying Palms
9. Stars in Harmony
10. Ripple of Dreams
11. Lunar Lullaby
12. Silhouettes Against the Sky

My personal concerns with AI in the visual arts and visual culture in general revolve primarily around theft and misinformation. In the essay that we read this week, photography was compared to art forms like painting and drawing. It was specifically accused of stealing jobs from draftsmen as well. While I believe all of that to be true, I don’t think that it’s entirely fair to compare this situation to the one that we are currently in with AI in the visual arts. The primary difference in my eyes between these two situations is the fact that artificial intelligence tools are being trained with people’s artworks without their explicit permission. One might then argue, don’t all artists derive their works from somewhere? Don’t they most often do so without explicit permission? The answer to these two questions is yes, but where I think it differs from AI is that an artist still has to be able to physically create an artwork with their hands and know how to replicate another artist’s style. With AI, you don’t have to be artistic in that sense at all and can just replicate a person’s style or work without their permission and without having the skill that is typically required to do so. I feel like it’s more respectable if you’ve trained yourself and not just your eye or your “prompts” to copy someone else’s work or if you’ve “remixed” different artists’ styles in a way to create something that is your own.

An AI and visual arts concern that I think many agree with is the threat of misinformation. Artificial intelligence can now create images so realistic that they look almost indistinguishable from actual photographs. This has led to people creating pornographic images of others without their consent—images that can be used to sway political elections or ones that can be used to spread health or scientific misinformation with potential consequences for a large chunk of the population. We saw the real-life effects of misinformation take shape with the election of Donald Trump as our president, and I hope that AI will not be a successful avenue to push these further in the future.

As artists and creators, the duty to uphold the integrity of the artistic world is in our hands, and we have to take action now before it’s too late. While I believe that artificial intelligence has been and will continue to be a neat tool for creativity, I also think that we collectively need to speak up about our concerns and help come up with solutions to remedy them. Coming up with an effective solution won’t be easy, and even governments all over the world have had their own difficulties deciding what to do about AI. I don’t have a perfect solution in mind either, but I hope that someone with more intelligence on and experience with this subject is able to step up to the plate for all of us and make changes that are considerate to all parties.

I started this story by asking my Research GPT to give me examples of guidelines to create a good story. I then used those parameters and choose the theme, characters, plot outline, etc. and had the GPT write the initial story for me. As I read through each variation of the story, I asked the GPT to change certain elements like the scenery, appearance and personality of characters, and more. I also had the GPT elaborate or shorten certain plot points to create a better flow within the story. The following is the final result:

In the mystical heart of Eldoria, where ancient magics weave the tapestry of existence, Nyssa, a young elf with hair like woven moonbeams and eyes deep as the forest’s secrets, embarked on a quest not just of destiny, but of self-discovery. Born to a lineage revered for their command of light magic, her life in the Sylvan Woods was one of beauty and expectation. The Woods, a place where trees whispered ancient secrets and rivers sang melodies of old magic, was her home. Yet, it was a home that felt like a gilded cage, her parents, Aelar and Miriel, imposing strict control, envisioning her future as an extension of their legacy, alongside her compliant siblings, Caelum and Elara.

Nyssa’s spirit, however, yearned for balance, for the untold stories hidden in the shadows cast by the light her family wielded so fervently. It was this yearning that led her to Eirik, a clumsy yet endearing cyclops whose presence sparked an unusual allergy in Nyssa, yet whose singular perspective revealed the world in hues she’d never imagined. Together, they ventured beyond the familiar, driven by the theft of the Orb of Nightfall from the Temple of Equilibrium, a relic whose absence threatened to tilt the world into perpetual darkness.

Their journey was a tapestry of encounters that shaped their path. Finn, the bard, whose melodies pierced the fog of uncertainty, and Aria, the witch, whose potions promised to steady their steps, were but waypoints in their quest to understand the essence of balance. The Temple of Equilibrium, accessible only to those who mastered the cosmic cha-cha slide, stood atop Harmony Hills, a testament to the dance of light and dark. Its ancient stones and celestial statues spoke of a time when magic was not a force to be wielded but a partner in the dance of existence.

The heart of their quest lay in the confrontation with Malakar, an undead warlock treant whose roots delved into the very essence of magic’s duality. Malakar, twisted by his own despair and loss, sought to engulf the world in shadow, a reflection of his inner turmoil. It was in the depths of the Shattered Peaks, amidst the ruins of his lair, that Nyssa and Eirik faced him, not with the might of magic, but with the strength of understanding.

“Malakar,” Nyssa began, her voice steady despite the sneezes Eirik’s proximity induced, “why seek to drown the world in darkness? Is there not beauty in the balance, in the dance between light and dark?”

Malakar’s response, a rustle of leaves and a whisper of wind, spoke of a heart long hardened by isolation. “The world has forgotten the dance. It bathes in light, ignorant of the shadows it casts. Why should I not show them the depth of their neglect?”

Eirik, stumbling forward with a bowl of his beloved almond-flavored ‘pistachio’ pudding, offered a spoon to Malakar. “Maybe ’cause in the dark, you can’t see the awesome stuff. Like this pudding. Looks weird, tastes amazing. Plus, dancing in the dark is just bumping into stuff.”

The absurdity of the moment, the earnestness in Eirik’s gesture, and the sincerity in Nyssa’s plea, cracked the armor Malakar had built around himself. Here, before him, stood an elf and a cyclops, embodying the balance he had lost faith in. They did not deny the darkness but embraced it as part of the whole.

“It is not the absence of light that we fear, but the absence of balance,” Nyssa continued, her words weaving around Malakar like a gentle spell. “You, who have known both light and dark, possess the power to restore what was lost, not through dominance, but through understanding.”

Moved by their conviction, Malakar realized that his quest for darkness had blinded him to the true nature of balance. In Nyssa’s quest, he saw a reflection of his own, twisted by grief and loss. Surrendering the Orb of Nightfall to Nyssa, he chose to step into the light of understanding, guided by the very beings he had sought to oppose.

Nyssa and Eirik, with the Orb restored, danced the cha-cha slide as a symbol of their journey, a dance that echoed through the temple and into the heart of Eldoria. Their return to the Sylvan Woods was not just a triumphant march but a declaration of a new beginning, one where balance reigned, and the dance between light and dark was celebrated.

Nyssa’s confrontation with her parents, upon her return, was a moment of revelation. She stood before them, not as the child they sought to mold but as the guardian of balance she had become. Her journey, marked by sneezes, laughter, and the discovery of self, reshaped her destiny and that of Eldoria.

Her tale, woven with the threads of understanding, friendship, and the cosmic dance of existence, became a legend. It was a story that transcended the confines of light and dark, teaching that the essence of magic, and of life, lies in the harmony of contrasts, in the beauty of the dance, and in the joy of almond-flavored pistachio pudding shared among friends, under the watchful eye of the moon.

Mark Amerika’s writing works, created with the help of artificial intelligence tools, are very interesting. They seem to give us a glimpse into what the future of artificial intelligence and art combined will look like in some capacity. While I’m not a creative writer myself, I can still appreciate his contributions to the digital remix space and art as a whole. His thoughts and creative processes, when verbalized or put into text form, are encouraging for someone like myself. They challenge one to look past any superficial assumptions and biases towards AI and look deeper into how it can be used to help with creativity.

Amerika seems to view creative relationships with GPTs as not just a collaborative experience but also as an extension of the self in some ways. He mentions often in “My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence: An Interview with Mark Amerika” how he encouraged himself to enter what myself and others consider to be a “flow-like” state, essentially allowing for his subconscious mind and body to take over while creating. Doing this and training his GPTs passively and intentionally with his previous works blurs the line between himself and the AI, causing it to merge with him and vice versa.

Clearly, Mark Amerika is a pioneer in different artistic spaces, including creative writing and digital remixing. He has a positive and optimistic view on artificial intelligence that many artists (including myself) have often been skeptical of. Reading through his interview and viewing some of his creative works that were created with the help of AI has pushed me to try and understand this optimism. I now wonder what I’ve been potentially missing out on creatively due to my biases. Hopefully, the creation and use of my research GPT will steer me in a similar direction.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital creation, my journey has been and will be one of constant exploration, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with the tools at my disposal. At the heart of this exploration lies my passion for digital art and web design, a realm where colors speak louder than words and the user interface can make or break an experience. As an artist and designer, my biggest goals with AI are to combine this newfound interest with my existing skills and expand upon them. AI tools like my Research GPT “Art and Tech Muse,” as well as Chat GPT 4, Dall-E 3, Midjourney, and others, will allow me to navigate the new ways in which I can create art and help me generate newer and fresher ideas.

The core of my research is to harness AI as a pivotal tool in the creation process—a companion that doesn’t just assist but inspires. The main focus will be to: firstly, utilize Dall-E 3 and Midjourney for generating groundbreaking digital art, including the intricate process of selecting color palettes that evoke the right emotions and convey the intended message. Secondly, to explore web design ideas and trends, using my Research GPT “Art and Tech Muse,” leveraging AI to not only help with the coding of these designs but to also foster a creative dialogue that leads to unique and responsive web experiences. I want to be able to turn to my GPT in particular for coming up with ideas, as it will have examples of previous ones that I’ve liked and used, as well as samples of my writing voice, etc. I want it to know and understand what I like when it comes to art and design, but I’d also like it to give me new ideas that take my preferences into account. I don’t want it to just “spit out” the same concepts repeatedly just because it knows that I like them.

This endeavor is not just about the end product but also about the journey there. It’s about how the integration of AI, particularly through photo generation with Dall-E 3 and Midjourney and the generative ideas from the Art and Tech Muse GPT, can transform the creative process. My aim is to create a multimodal essay that not only showcases the culmination of these technologies but also reflects my journey as a digital artist, designer, and general creator. This essay will serve as a testament to the symbiotic relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence, illustrating how they can come together to create something truly remarkable that blurs the lines between humanity and technology. I am not a creative writer per se, but I feel as though this GPT could help me to get closer to that by encouraging me to step outside of my comfort zone and potentially write about topics and themes that I wouldn’t otherwise choose.

Through this project, I plan to delve deep into the capabilities of AI tools, pushing them to their limits to see how they can augment, enhance, and even challenge my creative process. I plan on using some of the techniques that we’ve already begun to learn in class to accomplish this. Whether that is generating character names and backstories to build a world in which I can visualize my artworks or generating images themselves to use as references for my digital works, the possibilities are truly endless. The goal is to use these tools not as a crutch but as a catalyst for innovation, allowing me to explore uncharted territories in digital art and web design. By doing so, I hope to uncover new perspectives on how AI can be a collaborator in the creative process, bringing a fresh dimension to digital artistry and design. I’m hoping that these tools can also pull me from creative “ruts” whenever possible so that I’m able to create when I want to and not only when my artistic brain allows me to.

In essence, this project is an exploration of the possibilities that lie at the nexus of AI and digital creation. It’s about challenging the status quo and asking “what if?” By documenting this journey in a multimodal essay, I aim to share not just the outcomes of this collaboration but also the insights and learnings gained along the way. It is my hope that this project will not only contribute to the discourse on AI and digital art but also inspire others to explore the potential of these technologies in their creative endeavors. I’m not entirely sure what my final project will consist of, but I know that I will most enjoy creating visual representations of what I’ve learned throughout my time in this class. I’m hoping that as I use and refine my GPT, I’m also able to find some joy in creating works with text, i.e., poems, short stories, descriptive captions, etc., that could add an extra layer to anything visual that I create. I would also like to show off how I’ve been able to use these tools to generate text for my final project, and I hope that the results exceed my expectations.

The Omega team and their creation, Prometheus, simultaneously solved many of our current world’s largest problems while also creating new ones. This scenario showed how quickly AI can go from a concept to a working model that has the ability to change everything from our political systems to our chosen modes of entertainment. There exists a disconnect between what we think the future capabilities of AI will be and what will actually come to fruition. This conversation isn’t one that is pointless, as we must get ahead of any potential problems prior to them arising. The outcome of this scenario could have been vastly different and potentially more positive if only a few actions were adjusted.

What’s missing from this scenario is an ethical approach from the Omega team to their creation and implementation of Prometheus. They did not follow any established guidelines, laws, or regulations that could work to serve the best interests of society as a whole. Instead, this company focused more on gaining control of the masses, accumulating wealth, and ensuring that their own backs were covered. What went wrong was that the Omega team and their entire company were following what I would consider to be shady business practices. I assume that they did not play by the existing rules or laws but instead chose to go under the radar and cheat the systems that were in place to prevent these kinds of situations from happening. They gained their status, wealth, and power through unethical and deceptive means, not unlike the current people and groups that are in power today.

To avoid the undesirable outcomes and maximize the desirable ones in this new world of AI, we must find a middle ground. Something that doesn’t involve being entirely unethical, like within this scenario, but with an understanding that sometimes undesirable outcomes are inevitable. We need to ensure that humanity stays central to this conversation and that they have a say in what the fate of AI eventually is, as we are the ones that will be most affected. Artificial intelligence should be used as a tool and not a weapon; therefore, we should establish boundaries and regulations before it’s too late.

I’m interested in A.I. because if I don’t learn how to work with it, then I will most likely be left behind in the industry that I want to work in.