Tech EDGE Art TEAMS - DALL·E 2

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DALL·E 2 - Tech EDGE Art TEAMS

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[00:00:06.060]Hi, and welcome to the Art TEAMs Podcast.
[00:00:08.850]Today, I want to talk about DALL-E.
[00:00:10.620]We've been working with our teachers
[00:00:12.480]and playing around with DALL-E.
[00:00:13.950]If you don't know what DALL-E is,
[00:00:15.870]it's one of the first products that OpenAI actually released
[00:00:19.320]to the public long before ChatGPT.
[00:00:21.570]And this is an app that can create any kind of art
[00:00:27.450]based on a prompt.
[00:00:28.800]The more specific the prompt is, the better.
[00:00:31.440]Usually, the result is, although we've played with it
[00:00:34.200]and sometimes it just gives us lousy results.
[00:00:37.530]And this is an example.
[00:00:38.790]So when you go to DALL-E, this is my trial.
[00:00:43.020]I did Superman on an elephant
[00:00:44.670]fighting aliens in a cubist style.
[00:00:47.400]This is really one of my favorite things
[00:00:49.350]is you can define a style
[00:00:51.300]and then it tries to create to that style.
[00:00:53.430]Sometimes, if an artist has enough exemplars out there,
[00:00:56.730]you can actually name specific artist.
[00:01:01.260]Often, I like using more general.
[00:01:04.890]So that's just what it looks like.
[00:01:07.260]And I can give you a few more examples just so you'd see.
[00:01:11.760]This is, for example, something that our teachers created.
[00:01:15.000]Underwater scene with corals and schools of fish, starfish,
[00:01:18.090]and a shark in the style of Roy Lichtenstein.
[00:01:21.150]And you can see the different efforts
[00:01:22.950]and very different products from each one of them.
[00:01:26.760]The first thing that I would say
[00:01:28.650]if you are trying to bring this kind of AI
[00:01:31.500]or discussion of that into a regular classroom
[00:01:33.900]or into the art classroom,
[00:01:35.580]first thing I think you need to do is discuss the ethics
[00:01:38.610]because this is, in some ways, a discussion
[00:01:43.920]about who owns art,
[00:01:46.290]who has the right to use it or not use it.
[00:01:49.170]And there are interesting places
[00:01:51.120]and interesting discussions on the internet.
[00:01:53.010]There are some artists that are suing, for example,
[00:01:55.500]saying, "You cannot use my art.
[00:01:57.600]I know it was out on the web and it was representing me
[00:02:01.560]but it was on my website.
[00:02:03.150]You have no right to take it and use it to feed a model
[00:02:08.760]that uses artificial intelligence
[00:02:11.190]and then people can go in and recreate versions of my art
[00:02:14.790]without me making any profit from it
[00:02:18.240]or even without any permission from me."
[00:02:21.810]And so that discussion can create a really good entree
[00:02:26.820]to what does AI do from a digital citizenship perspective,
[00:02:33.360]and who owns, and you can have deeper discussions
[00:02:36.720]about art in general, you can have specific discussions
[00:02:40.020]about copyright and all of these things
[00:02:43.140]that have always been there but this AI world opens them up
[00:02:46.980]to new interpretations and new challenges.
[00:02:49.530]So that's the first thing I would do
[00:02:51.120]if you're bringing it into your classrooms.
[00:02:53.280]In the regular classrooms, especially when dealing
[00:02:56.040]with other creative modes like writing,
[00:02:58.410]you can can start the writing process
[00:03:00.570]with the prompt to DALL-E
[00:03:02.940]and then based on the art that was created, kids can write.
[00:03:07.350]And one of the things we found in a lot of my research
[00:03:10.050]and research of others is when kids have a piece of art
[00:03:13.290]that they have participated in creating,
[00:03:15.420]they are much more likely to create more vivid descriptions,
[00:03:19.980]longer texts, and more sophisticated words.
[00:03:23.070]So you are actually creating a more rich product
[00:03:26.730]on the writing side
[00:03:27.810]because there's a strong prompt that is visual.
[00:03:32.070]The second thing you can do, of course,
[00:03:33.990]is use it to create a representation of what's in the story.
[00:03:38.580]So taking some of the keywords in the story
[00:03:40.950]and making it create a piece of art
[00:03:43.230]that would go with the story,
[00:03:44.430]especially if you don't have a lot of time for the creation.
[00:03:47.550]As I said, in the art classroom,
[00:03:50.550]discussion of ethics, you can do a competition
[00:03:53.640]where you create as a class, prompt together.
[00:03:56.760]You do not use DALL-E originally.
[00:03:59.310]Everybody creates their own version of art
[00:04:01.680]or maybe there are a few different ones.
[00:04:04.680]And then we compare it to what DALL-E created
[00:04:08.760]in a way to see how our creative minds are very different
[00:04:12.150]than DALL-E's creative minds.
[00:04:14.070]Or maybe they are very much the same.
[00:04:16.020]And so it's an opportunity to have real discussions
[00:04:18.450]about human creativity
[00:04:20.970]and what happens when we're trying to create these tools.
[00:04:24.960]We can also have a discussion about style.
[00:04:27.390]So see what the original pieces,
[00:04:29.550]let's say, in this example, Roy Lichtenstein is an example.
[00:04:33.780]And then students can create their own versions of that.
[00:04:36.690]So it can create a prompt for really a creative swirl
[00:04:42.210]and really dislodge some of the students from...
[00:04:46.440]I'm always interested in students
[00:04:49.080]that do something very, very well,
[00:04:50.940]but then they get stuck doing just that.
[00:04:53.010]They know how to draw a horse so they always draw the horse.
[00:04:55.920]And it's almost always the same horse.
[00:04:58.410]Using DALL-E to create that idea,
[00:05:00.870]that maybe that horse can look differently
[00:05:03.180]and play with that prompt
[00:05:04.860]until they find something they like
[00:05:06.270]that they can then diverge from
[00:05:08.340]and see how do you create four different horses, right?
[00:05:12.450]Just like we have different sharks here
[00:05:15.120]and in different settings.
[00:05:17.340]So enriching their creativity based on a prompt
[00:05:21.510]and seeing how you can create a similar thing
[00:05:24.360]but with different representation.
[00:05:26.370]So today, on the Art TEAMs Podcast, we talked about DALL-E.
[00:05:30.810]Please, please, please like us, give us comments.
[00:05:33.060]I'm dying to know what you know and how do you use DALL-E,
[00:05:38.490]and I'll see you next time.
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