At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, controversy arose around a visual arts assignment that required students to use generative AI. While the professor aimed to prepare students for technology's impact on art and employment, many students expressed strong opposition, leading to vandalism and calls to ban AI from art classes. This incident highlights the broader debate on the role of AI in creative fields and the resistance some students feel towards incorporating AI into their artistic practices.
One student scrawled the words 'Take This Bullshit Down. AI Is Not Art' on a description of the assignment tacked up next to the printed pieces.
I was trying to prepare my students for these endless shock-wave moments in which a new disruptive technology rolls out and we all have to encounter it.
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