The Halloween Special from Open Oregon: Actually Scary Things About Artificial Intelligence in Open Education

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We applaud @hofera and the team from Open Oregon Educational Resources for again bringing another Halloween themed webinar this year. Don’t miss out on Actually Scary Things About Artificial Intelligence in Open Education

I only use generative AI to make images about generative AI, and made this using Bing Image Creator

Scary menacing robot careved into a pumpking surrounded by small grinning pumpkins an candles. Bats fly overhead in front of a full moon
Scary menacing robot careved into a pumpking surrounded by small grinning pumpkins an candles. Bats fly overhead in front of a full moon1792×1024 202 KB

Image generated with Bing AI based on prompt “A halloween carved pumpkin that is designed to be like a super powered AI robot”

Are scary questions about AI haunting you? Last Halloween Open Oregon Educational Resources hosted a panel discussion to demystify current and future uses of GenAI in open education contexts. This year a different panel convenes to explore critical questions that our field is asking about this much-talked-about technology. As with any commercially developed product, it’s essential to explore misalignment between AI companies’ goals and the mission of higher education so that our use of AI tools stays accountable to our values.

Panelists include:

  • Stewart Baker​, Systems / Institutional Repository Librarian, Western Oregon University
  • Maha Bali @mahabali , Professor of Practice, Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo
  • Stephen Krueger, Affordable Course Content Librarian
  • Heather M. Ross @hmross , Educational Development Specialist, University of Saskatchewan

:date: When: 2024-10-31T16:00:00Z→2024-10-31T17:00:00Z
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:link: Info: https://openoregon.org/events/event/actually-scary-things-about-artificial-intelligence-in-open-education/

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I only use generative AI to make images about generative AI

Hey @cogdog, that webinar looks fang-tastic! :man_vampire: And so does your robot pumpkin, which makes me wonder: why do you use generative AI to only make images about itself? Curious to learn more! :upside_down_face:

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Good use of pun, I know I can Count on you (perhaps that metaphor fits for AI!) :wink:

I hardly have a need for that cartoon/surreal style of imagery that is most typical of its output, Jan (yes, I know it can be more photo realistic). Besides, I rarely lack finding an approporiate image from amongst my own 72000+ flickr photos licensed CC0/CC-BY, the millions more openly licensed in flickr, or Wikimedia Commons, all and more of which are findable in Openverse search where you can attribute in one copy/paste the actual person who created and shared an image.

I am driven more by the idea I want to portray and generally I prefer photos of the world we live in, not imagery of a synthetic imaginary space (for which sometimes there is a need).

I’d flip the question around to you or anyone else-- why is generative AI so necessary for creating imagery for which its source is murky when so much is already available?

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Alan drops the mic

'nuff said… :laughing: Those are excellent points.

Another favorite use case: super custom AI-generated coloring books for kids… :upside_down_face:

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