This week on Chronversations: A conversation with students about the use of AI in visual arts.
TRANSCRIPT:
0:08: Welcome back to the Chronicle Chronversations.
0:11: I’m your host, Aaron Guzman.
0:14: This week on Chronversations, Columbia students talk about the ethical uses of AI and how it is used in their everyday lives as well as their student lives.
0:23: Junior fine arts major Eliana Pinkert talks about the ethical use of AI for class assignments and personal projects.
0:31: I’ve maybe used it like 3 times in my life,, once for a cover letter and then I think I used it like a couple more times for like resume and stuff but that’s it.
0:46: I feel like I can’t really speak on anybody else but I feel personally that it’s unethical for me to use it in that kind of context,, so I kind of choose not to.
0:59: I always I also find that.
1:02: a lot of reasons why other people might use it like oh I don’t wanna write this paper.
1:06: It’s like too long.
1:07: I’m just gonna like, you know, ChatGPT. It’s often much more tedious for me to like put it through ChatGPT and then I’m gonna just have to edit it down.
1:18: I’m gonna have to read through the whole thing and like redo it again basically.
1:22: Because it’s so oftentimes like so inaccurate, so I might as well just like write it myself the first time earlier this last semester, the visual arts department used AI for that poster.
1:34: Yeah, that was ridiculous.
1:36: You can, you can just have hired any one of the like tens of hundreds of students. That would have been super easy for somebody.
1:45: Sophomore Athena Villanova talks about the use of AI from an environmental standpoint as well as using AI for her studio classes.
1:54: With the way AI presents itself right now and having no laws, no boundaries, I don’t think we should be using it because it is taking away like the human aspect of art, but not only that, the just using AI is bad for the world.
2:11: It is is not good for our planet.
2:13: It takes up a lot of water that we could be using and just using it to cool off these AI centers.
2:19: No, I don’t use ChatGPT.
2:21: I stay away from the AI engine on Google, unless I’m like mindlessly using it and they automatically do it, then no, I don’t use it on Adobe.
2:30: I, I stay far, far away from them.
2:32: So my professor had mentioned we can use AI to create ideas and then go off of that and using like the generative AI filter on Adobe Illustrator, but I, I believe that it’s getting used to like help artists are trying to use it.
2:49: I just don’t think it helps artists.
2:51: I think it more hinders them.
2:53: That’s all for this week.
2:55: Make sure to stay up to date with campus and metro news at columbiachronicle.com.
2:59: And sign up for our newsletter at columbiachronicle.com/newsletter.
3:04: Don’t forget to check out our new Three C’s podcast where we tell you about the three biggest things you need to know at Columbia for the week.
3:10: I’m Aaron Guzman.
3:11: Thanks for listening.
Copy edited by Patience Hurston
