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, designed, modeled, and recorded creations with and without AI, then judged the results.Undergrads in UMaine’s 2023 Introduction to New Media course, taught by Jon Ippolito assisted by Sean Lopez, repeated the same eight …