Spring 2024 Course Topic: Forgeries, Deep Fakes, and Fudging the Line: When AI is the Artist: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

In the spring 2024 semester, IST 130 will take a deep dive into the emerging questions, opportunities, and challenges related to Generative AI.

• Who owns the art co-created with a machine?
• When does AI become the artist?
• Do we view art created with the aid of AI differently?

In this section, you will engage with these questions and more. You'll identify, critique, and create AI-generated artistic content like what's shown in the images at the top of this page (art, writing, music, and games), and engage with the ethical questions that arise as a result ever-improving generative AI.

This survey course explores emerging technologies used to produce and consume popular cultural artifacts. Through individual and team-based learning activities, students will analyze and interact with information and communication technologies across popular culture genres. The course content and the assignments are directed at helping students to both create and critique digital media in ways that demonstrate their understanding of, engagement with, and reflections upon the relationships among people and organizations, emerging technology, and popular culture. Students will also design and produce digital media that demonstrate their ability to integrate and synthesize central concepts and themes from the course. This is an introductory course in IST, and meets the requirements for a General Education course in Arts (GA). This course is delivered with significant student and instructor interaction with computers and digital media.