When we first started the process of using AI to help generate new ideas for our projects I thought of it as if it was almost cheating. It didn’t feel right to take new ideas from a generated image that used other images on the internet. But as we moved forward I could see that, even with how advanced it already is, it could never get your exact vision you had in your mind  into an image. However, it could create new unique and weird images that would lead you into making your own new ideas, rather than using it to completely give you a new idea, it was just a boost towards a new one. I still have positive and negative opinions on AI mainly to do with how people use it, but I definitely have more positive outlooks now than when I started.

The AI tools gave me an opportunity to really visualize the style of painting I wanted to do. At first I couldn’t decide thinking that I could go for semi-realism but once I saw how the ideas in impressionism form I really liked it. It benefited me into making that decision early rather than painting one style, not liking it, and starting all over. 

Yes I think I will use some of these tools to help me in future projects. But like I’ve stated in class I would never rely on it to complete an idea of my own because it feels lazy and goes against human nature to evolve and create. I will use Midjourny if I want to visualize my idea as an image and see how I can evolve it, I would only use Chatgbt to help me think out small ideas in a larger form and see if it can lead me to more thoughts in writing form.