The project, "Lost Purpose" provides insight to the potential harmful future of artificial intelligence and how it could diminish the human nature to be creative and do new things. I was led to creating this artwork after researching artificial intelligence and finding examples of people using artificial intelligence to create new art and other creative ideas. Seeing this made me believe that, while it can be useful to help create ideas, people are using it to completely finish creating new works and ideas which is potentially harmful to our creative nature. 

Lost Purpose utilizes an impressionist style painting to represent that, even while there is a message behind the piece, there is still room for viewers to use creativity and visualize the art in their own way. The piece aims to target the younger audience, with the message to create art in a physical sense with your own brain and hands; imagine and create. The viewer is meant to see the artwork and have their own connection to it with their own meaning, inspiring people to create and visualize their own ideas. 

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.