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LESSON

Creativity: Sharing It with AI

What do you gain and what do you lose when you make creative work with AI?

We can now make almost anything with AI—an image, a song, a paragraph—in just seconds. But when a machine does the work, is the result still creative? And is it still yours? In this lesson, students weigh what AI gives and takes from creative work, and decide where their own line is.

Objectives

  • Examine how AI complicates what makes creative work original, intentional, and personal
  • Use the tool-to-replacement continuum to evaluate different ways of creating with AI
  • Describe their own values about when and how to use AI in creative work

Vocabulary

Originality · Intentionality
Originality the quality of being new or different, whether that's something totally fresh or a new spin on something that already exists
Intentionality making something on purpose with a goal or idea in mind, rather than by accident
Time
20 mins.

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