Tuesday, October 7, 2025

AI and Creative Work

Greetings from RegNet AI Series, with Deborah Lupton at the Australian National University. Earlier today Ethan Smith talked on AI image generation at LeonardoAi. Before that one of my computer interns asked if they needed to acknowledge they had used a computer generated voice for their pitch video. 

The theme emerging from this is the nature of creativity and what is seen as a worthwhile human skill. The student said they were writing the script themselves, just getting the software to voice it. 

What I wanted to say was no, do it all yourself. How can you learn if you just get the software to do it. But I use computer generated speech to voice short videos for students, so how can I tell them not to? Of course I spent six months learning to make videos with analog tape, but is that now a useful skill?

No comments:

Post a Comment