Artificial intelligence has been en vogue for the past few years, especially with the bots that are available online such as OpenAI and ChatGPT.
Students are able to ask ChatGPT questions or clarifications on the topics they don’t understand and there are also many other uses AI can help students with in their everyday lives such as creating quizzes, flashcards, planning their week or day, and more.
However, along with these benefits also come drawbacks.
Mr. Chris Kemple is a Visual Arts educator who has taught here for 19 years and is a 1989 Gibbons graduate.
“I do recognize that it has a lot of benefits in medical research and technology and those types of things. I see why that would be hopeful, but most people, when it comes to art, just want to use AI because they don’t want to pay artists.” said Kemple “The only way AI can work is by exploiting other people’s art. AI doesn’t come up with that on its own. It can’t. The only way it can do something in a certain style is by taking that person’s artwork and going through it and kind of basically sucking it up like a sponge and using it without giving any credit or any compensation to that artis.”
According to Kemple, AI is already having a negative effect on many industries, especially entertainment. He reveals that he has a friend who works with Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles who has told him that many projects that were on hold are now being canceled because many studios are no longer willing to take their chances on original ideas and work. Kemple also states many of the crew members that work for these studios are losing their jobs.
“These companies are trying to save money any way they can by using AI to just write the script, like for copy or to do, whether it’s little tasks or really big tasks like storyboarding using it for storyboarding scenes or illustrating background art in animation or things like that,” said Kemple.
Kemple mentioned that he was looking at an advertisement for a coloring book with a person that had too many fingers, their legs don’t connect properly, and the patterns on the armor were lopsided. Kemple also informed us about the negative effects of AI in our environment.
“In order for those processors to do what they do, the amount of water that it takes to cool the engines down and the amount of carbon output that those engines produce on a daily basis is insane,” said Kemple.
Artificial intelligence can help us in different ways in our lives, but in visual arts, it can not only hurt our environment, but also take away the emotions we have examining the art, and the appreciation we feel knowing that a person spent time on their work.
