A conversation with students about the updated AI Policies for classes

Transcript:

0:08: Welcome back to The Chronicle Chronversations. 

 0:11: I’m your host, Aaron Guzman. 

 0:13: This week on Chronversations, students share their thoughts on the changed AI policies for classes this school year and how they think AI will affect their lives after college. 

 0:22: Sophomore directing major, Gabriel Valori, shares his thoughts on the changed AI policy and what would be considered an ethical use of AI versus an unethical use. 

 0:32: My thoughts on it are basically just I think that, you know, as AI evolves…

0:44 I like the new changes and I can tell you why because AI is not going anywhere, and it is better to learn how to utilize it in ways that do not hinder creativity and take away the human aspect of art now than to learn it four years down the road when it’s already become the norm. 1:07 So by, you know, implementing these policies early, I feel like it’s kind of making that norm of this is not something to replace artists, but a tool or a new, entirely new. 

 1:18: Medium for artists to utilize for storytelling or whatever medium they choose. 

 1:24: I think it’s better used for indie projects, but as soon as you get up to those big-budget, like Hollywood projects, where you can afford to have no matter what. 

 1:35: The case is I’m always pro human interaction, so if you have the resources available, I feel like you should try and do human because there’s less errors 

1:49 You know AI isn’t perfect, it’s gonna make errors, but for indie sets and for indie post production design, it’s easier for indie or indie sets to get the same level or at least close to the same level of production quality as some of these bigger budget sets. 

 2:04: As far as directing goes, I don’t really see a way for AI to be utilized in that field, particularly because it’s 

2:19 As much as AI trains itself on humans it will. I don’t think it’s at a place right now where it can. 

 2:29: Convey like how to act human to a human. 

 2:32: I don’t know if that makes sense. 

 2:35: Senior filmmaking major Vince Luo stresses the importance of learning how to use AI properly as a tool in your field of study rather than becoming dependent on it. 

 2:44: He also believes that AI could be a very positive change to the workplace. 

 2:49: Learn how to use AI for your work, accent it like, not like. 

 2:54: not like let AI take your work. 

 2:56: It’s more like you need to know how to use the work, the AI, to access your workplace or something, because you cannot use it, you’re gonna be replaced. 

 3:09: Because the thing, the efficiency is a thing outside of the art world. 

 3:15: They want you to work fast. 

 3:17: They want to work properly. 

 3:18: They want to work correctly, but also efficiently; they want you to be fast. 

 3:24: But what’s the way like, OK, if you’re not using that like nowadays you’re in the world just drive like biking in the whole thing, someone is if they’re using AI, they, they can be driving fast and then you will be outdated because if everyone’s in AI and then you’re not using that like try to like help you booster up. 

 3:43: You’re gonna be in danger, just like those IT companies, like so many people being laid off because of AI. 

 3:49: So you think it’s like a very essential tool that people should,

 3:55: They should be learning how to harness the AI rather than letting it… be the horse. 

 4:00: OK. 

 4:01: It’s a wire horse that you need to learn how to ride. 

 4:04: That’s all for this week. 

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 4:16: I’m Aaron Guzman. 

 4:18: Thanks for listening. 

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