Wyatt:

Left Over is a story/short film about a man who watches his fellow employees get replaced by Artificial Intelligence. He then spirals into madness being alone in his factory, unable to fulfill himself by helping others. This project, made in collaboration with several different forms of artificial intelligence, including ChatGPT, MidJourney, and VoiceLabs, started with our first assignment in our studio, we were given a prompt about AI in the workplace, and we wrote about something very similar. When I was put into a group with the same person I wrote our original story with, we decided to continue that story, as we were already somewhat attached to it, and thought it would be a good starting point. Along with the story in 3-act form, there is a narration read by AI and many images generated by AI that help the listener visualize the story to the fullest extent. This story can be construed in many ways but can be seen as a cautionary tale, speaking about how AI should be used to assist people, not to replace them. As AI gets more and more advanced, this is a reality we will soon have to face.

Finn:

Andrew: 

Our project was called Left Over and was a short film/audiobook about the most average man in America, named Joe Schmoe. We went into the film with a message to convey, that AI in the workplace will do much more to harm the jobs industry than it will help it. Joe Schmoe was meant to be as relatable as possible and was more a vessel to try and convey our ideas about AI than he was a real character. Joe was a loving family man who worked hard at his factory job, which he found enjoyable due to all the people he would help on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately for Joe, as time progresses more and more of his co-workers get replaced by AI, stripping Joe away from the thing that made his job so fulfilling. We see Joe's life spiral into sadness/loneliness, then into anger as he loses everything that he loves about his job. It ultimately ends in Joe having a mental breakdown, destroying an AI monitoring facility. A robot then approaches Joe, Joe fears for the worst only to be "promoted" to an even more meaningless/ less fulfilling job. This whole story is meant to show how AI in the workplace (at least in our view) will only make jobs less fulfilling, less social, and much more isolating, causing mental harm to many workers.