Statement of Ethical and Inclusive Design
Thinking first about the digital ethics of my project, since my project will contain AI generated images, it is important to think about the ethics of AI and art generation. Since I will be using photos from the internet, even though I will be extending them I will be giving credit to the original artist at all times. Next, considering inclusive design, part of my research is on the availability of images allowing for this new creative avenue, so I want to stress that my final project (the completed storyboard) will be accessible as part of my final IS as well as reproducible using different digital images. I wanted to open up possibilities for people to be creative in this manner and use the frameworks of my animation process to continue to create, representing themselves as they see fit. To do this, I want to make my final project readable and with concise goals (to-do lists) at each step, as well as an easy-to-follow flow chart. I did consider that there will have to be some technical language there for my understanding that would not be known by everyone. I want to include this technical knowledge but in comments to myself, so that they can be viewed when needed and the framework will remain untouched. I also considered how others can follow these steps and use AI generated images but not cite them correctly. Because of this, I want to include some sort of protection for the original creators of these images. I haven’t thought of a way to do this yet (it is hard to tell when it is AI or not, from the Practical AI videos), but I’m thinking of including a space for the citation which would also help me keep track of the work and those who use the outline.
This topic sounds really interesting! Your project sounds very complex, so I’m excited to see how it works out in the end! I like your ideas about giving us the tools and instructions to recreate the animation on our own; I think that is such a unique idea that really involves the audience in your final project and its presentation! I like how you pointed out that you will need to give credit to the creators of the original images you extend with AI, hat definitely connects back to the subject of AI and plagiarism we have talked about in class. Just make sure that if you want to give the audience the ability to efficiently recreate your project’s animation, you thoroughly explain all of the technical language you include or try to write in more simplified terms.
It is a great idea to talk about the pictures that are AI generated, and you can easily connect that to our discussions from last class. Your storyboard looks very complex, however easy to understand all your concise ideas. Keep up the good work, I can already tell that your final project will be very interesting!
I’m happy to see I’m not the only one doing a computer science related story board. It’s interesting how you’re planning to write the transition algorithms in Java and I’m excited to see how the final product for the story map is going to show up as well as Senior IS.