By Anwita Puttam – News Editor

Artificial intelligence, also known as AI, is a human programmed machine that uses data and algorithms to identify patterns and make predictions. It learns and analyzes and gives you immediate responses for any questions you may have. It’s able to generate anything, but when does this become harmful?

Generative AI which creates new content. This can be in many different forms, text, images, video, audio and code. In order to get this information they need to take data from other resources out on the web and convert that date into something that fits the prompt.

Tools like Sora AI generate things like art, videos and even music. While this might seem helpful it raises a serious question. What happens to the human imagination?

These take humans days, weeks, sometimes even years to make. It’s something thats apart of their soul, it’s their thoughts put together in a piece of work that represents who they are. AI takes this away. It takes a pre-built prompt and just spits out some randomly generated image, most of the time this image is stealing artwork from another artist.

These creative fields have always been ways for people to express themselves. When someone creates something it reflects their emotions, ideas and experiences. AI doesn’t show these emotions. It’s simply just copies of pre-existing work. It makes art lose its meaning.

While people can argue to the fact that not everyone can make art, art is subjective. Not everything needs to be a painting or drawing to be art, anything can be art as long as you can show your emotions through it. ARt is something that is in the souls of humans, it’s not something that has designated rules.

Art is free and it is from the heart.

Because of how fast AI is able to generate animations and other creative formats, many animation companies have started using it in order to make productions. Major companies like Disney, Pixar and Sony Pictures had slowly started working with AI in order to make cheaper and faster animations. 

Even though there has been a 2% increase for animation job potential, they are vulnerable because of re-skilling challenges caused by AI.

AI is taking something that was supposed to be rooted into our soul, and turning it into a robotic, unemotional mess. Art is made by people, not a machine.