Recognizing and Evaluating Generative AI

     Generative AI is a group of different companies (AI) systems that sweep the internet for information, images, music, or other human-made things in an attempt to replicate them. This is accomplished when a person gives Gen-AI a prompt that will use the information its gathered to give something in response that replicates the prompt.

    Many sites are now integrating them into their websites, but I'm only hearing of this as I tend to not go on many different websites that are hosted by big companies. Though the sites I most often use that I find AI often used in advertisements or content shown on them are YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram.

    "The Limits of AI: Why We Should Stay Critical," discusses many of the problems that Generative AI creates, but I find one of the most important ones shown to be over reliance and skill decay. The thing that makes us human is our creativity, our ability to make things that only we can make. Yet, we are becoming lazy and using it to make everything for us (even though it is absolutely hideous and does not compare to what the human mind can make, at all). It also has led to students in schools relying on it to answer quizzes for them or write essays, because students when stressed tend to like an easy way out -- which Gen-AI allows. This leads to skill decay and lack of understanding of the material they are supposed to be learning.

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  1. Carissa SheltonDecember 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM

    Hi Sam! I completely agree that the human mind can create things that are so much better than what AI can! For example art, humans can really put their heart and soul into a piece which can really move people but AI art is always so one dimensional and makes so many uncanny mistakes like to many fingers and incorrect body proportions. Writing wise I would much prefer to read something with mistakes and you can see the writers personality rather than something that is too perfect to the point it becomes boring and robotic.

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