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Why your AI outputs feel “average”
AI advocates have expressed frustration at Ted Chiang’s critique of AI in The New Yorker, where he argued that large language models …
AI’s threat to elections is not what you think
Deep-faked images and other media may get all the headlines when it comes to endangering democracy, but the 2024 Maine Town Meeting …
The Misapplication of AI
We should be genuinely worried about the hubris of the captains of AI.
Digital Curation in the Shadow of AI
Join UMaine Digital Curation for a conversation with Christiane Paul, a trailblazer in the field who will review how practices of creating, …
Why you should generate AI images in your classroom
Text generators like ChatGPT have dominated my conversations with educators about AI in the past year. Despite their emergence a year before …
AI versus old-school creativity: a 50-student, semester-long showdown
This fall an unusual four-month experiment pitted generative AI against conventional digital tools in eight separate creative tasks. Fifty students wrote, coded, …
NEH Entangled Ecologies: AR meets Shaker Forest
Entangled Ecologies, an NEH funded project, led by UMaine's Joline Blais and Dartmouth colleague John Bell, creates an (AR) App that reveals the entwined histories and ecological systems of the Shaker Forest in Enfield, NH..
How To Teach with AI and Still Put People First
By Jon Ippolito Worried that generative AI might have killed the student essay? An “AI sandwich” may resurrect learning through writing …
The future of writing and Julius Caesar’s last breath
As part of the Learning With AI initiative, Still Water researchers continue to examine the role of generative AI in reshaping contemporary …
The history of movie acting, revealed by AI
Still Water senior researcher and New Media alumnus John Bell continues to uncover insights by marrying old and new media. This summer …
Wild Blueberry Stewards
For the past year, Still Water co-director Joline Blais has been president of the Wild Blueberry Heritage Center, headquartered in a physical museum in Columbia Falls and online at WildBlueberryHeritageCenter.org. The museum is an extension of the Wild Blueberry Lands
Webinars examine impact of AI on coders and creators
As part of its Learning With AI initiative, UMaine’s New Media program continues to offer free webinars on ways generative AI like …
To prevent cheating with AI, add it to your syllabus
Still Water faculty and colleagues have an answer for educators confused about how to cope with the rapid rise of ChatGPT and …
Digital curation jobs more than doubled in 2022
Demand for professionals who can manage collections of digital heritage and data continues to climb rapidly as related job postings rose by …
Wrestling with NFTs and TikTok in 2022
NFTs and TikTok, two of the biggest digital trends in recent years, came under fire in 2022. Research by Still Water researchers …
Can the next web solve the Internet’s problems?
Disinformation. Tech monopolies. Surveillance capitalism. For all its benefits, our current Internet is rife with vulnerabilities that can be exploited by the …
Three-year study shows 60% increase in demand for digital curation
A three-year analysis of jobs advertised on Twitter suggests that the pandemic increased demand for digital curation professionals, which has grown by …
NFTs: the promises and perils of crypto-art
NFTs hold out the promise of democratizing art by letting digital creators sell their works directly to collectors. But does the reality …