#Generative AI Workshops

[zsystems]

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[jamesusilljournal]

Aphrodite created out of sea foam, Somniodelic Workshop, 2024

[whentherewerebicycles]

everyone at my institution is so, SO all-in on AI. I was just in a meeting where they discussed the results of a faculty survey that indicated that 75% of faculty are either already using AI in their classrooms or intend to and only 25% say they don’t intend to. this wasn’t a campus-wide survey just of a particular subset of faculty from multiple departments so idk need a larger sample size. but I can say that it certainly FEELS like a 75/25 split in terms of how gung-ho everyone is about AI in meetings, workshops, etc. I kind of feel like I’m losing my mind… like literally what are we doing here? we are an institution of higher learning and we’re all just enthusiastically on board with using these tools that will almost inevitably circumvent learning and supercharge cheating? and the total lack of any university- or even team-wide policies on the use of AI in our work means it’s truly just the wild wild west out there. I’m really trying not to be a huge snob about this I’m trying to keep an open mind but like. I feel like what worries me most is the rhetoric of speed, urgency, and inevitability—we HAVE to learn these tools and we MUST start using them right this second lest we fall behind and there is NO time to pause and reflect deeply on what’s gained vs. what’s lost and also the future is already 100% fixed we have no control over these tools and no agency this is the One Path and we must all hurtle down it.

[phynali]

So apparently you can put an article (like an academic journal article, or an industry discussion paper full of jargon, or a technical paper), into an... AI podcast generator.

And the AI generator will spit out a podcast that's a conversation between two hosts that explains and discusses the article.

I'm being forced to listen to one of these podcasts for a work-related reason but I hate it a lot.

Why does this exist.

[redrabbitkreations]

[gingerbredman1989]

Steampunk Inventor in his workshop.

Ideogram AI

[everlastingday]

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[the-alternate-realities]

[somethingcooltolookat]

[zsystems]

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[aytonai]

The Old Alchemist

[crookedghosts]

another undergrad TA to double down on #4 and the tradition of the rushed final paper, especially in lower division courses where literally 30/60 of the submissions in any given section are clearly redbull fueled, and all of my cohort still remembers that shitty paper we all trauma bonded over—it is genuinely relatable and endearing to watch freshies go through the rite of passage and I will always be as generous as I can bc I have that in mind

also I'm literally never bothered by "poor" (or unclear/grammatically incorrect) writing that people send over for help, bc at least you're asking for help, and you're giving it an effort. and that will always stick in my mind when I'm grading -- conversely, I will also always remember the students who didn't give enough shits to turn in their own work. and they're not the ones I send recommendations for or share connections with, lol. that's a separate point, though

chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

[indembminsk]

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[gingerbredman1989]

Victorian Steampunk Inventor in his Carriage House workshop.

DALL-E

[purple-link]

So I want to set the record straight on a couple of things.

First, no, Hatsune Miku, as much as the rest of the Vocaloid series, is not Artificial Intelligence, either generative or otherwise. Vocaloid is a series of voice synthesizers from the mid 2000s.

She is an instrument. You use a digital piano, representing notes and chords, to change the pitch of Miku, and utilizing input words, she sings them at varying degrees of pitch and quality.

She is not generative AI. Up until this point, she was a computer program that people could tune and workshop, it used to take a long fricken' time. This is part of a series of Japanese programs that was released in the mid-2000s.

Now, from what I've learned, her most recent releases does have AI in the program, but again, that's being treated like a tool, not as a replacement. You still have to input each note by hand. It still requires a human touch.

You still have a lot of work to do.

Secondly, Hatsune Miku is a voicebank, which means that her voice is created with the help of a real person, in this case, Saki Fujita, who is a voice actress.

This can be compared to the situation surrounding James Earl Jones, where he gave permission for his voice to be used in a voicebank for future Darth Vader projects. He signed off on that.

The reason people are up in arms, and why there's still a SAG-AFTRA strike after all this time, is that corporations and content creators are using generative ai programs with voicebanks containing voices like Spongebob Squarepants and Keanu Reeves, and other popular voice actors, all without the permission of the original actors and actresses.

Hatsune Miku isn't just a generative voicebank that you can just press a button and she'll do it all for you. That keyboard in Vocaloid, when you tune it, is there for a reason.

Hatsune Miku is not generative AI. She's you and I. She's us. She's human. That's the difference.

[somethingcooltolookat]