artificial intelligence Archives

Editorial | The GPT-4 Studio Ghibli trend again reveals a horrible misappreciation for human-made art

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 31, 2025

Ignoring the potential violations and oversteps of copyright law, the ability to immediately generate images in an artist’s specific style completely waters down the messaging and intentions of their work.

Opinion | AI is still terrible, even if it’s getting more impressive

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • January 14, 2025

When the day comes that even the staunchest AI critics can’t immediately distinguish a generated piece from a real one, it will be important to remember the real reason that artificial intelligence still deserves no place in the artistic community.

Pitt Law hosts forum on voter education for Constitution Day event

By Patrick Diana, Staff Writer • September 23, 2024

Pitt’s School of Law hosted its annual Constitution Day event, with this year’s focus on voter education. Bertrall Ross, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a member of the Presidential Commision to the Supreme Court, gave the headlining speech.

Editorial | The fakeness of AI pornography intentionally fetishizes lack of consent

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • January 30, 2024

We often justify using celebrities’ likenesses in AI-generated videos or voice dubs because no reasonable person would believe they’re real. But in the case of deepfake pornography, this means of justification becomes the reason its consumers love it so much.

Opinion | AI art does more harm than good

By Danae Poteat, Staff Columnist • November 9, 2023

Although I do find AI art amusing, sometimes I feel guilty whenever I find myself enjoying it too much. I know that, in reality, a hardworking artist could have easily made this.

Opinion | AI music is opening Pandora’s box

By Patrick Swain, Contributing Editor • November 8, 2023

Half a century after the band split, the remaining members of the Beatles reunited to release their final song “Now and Then” on Thursday. The song brought together the iconic former bandmates John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, with one catch — Lennon died in 1980.

Opinion | AI Writing is Not the Answer

By Jameson Keebler, Senior Staff Columnist • September 22, 2023

I know that artificial intelligence will get better and I can’t judge it for the bad writing it produces right now. What is important is to appreciate the process that creates good writing.

Market at Towers to debut Amazon ‘Just Walk Out’ technology

By Adrienne Cahillane, Staff Writer • September 6, 2023

Pitt introduces Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology to a campus convenience store.

Pitt team creates ‘inclusive,’ ‘collaborative’ AI for Amazon competition

By Madison Dean, Staff Writer • March 2, 2023

Pitt is one of 10 university teams selected for the Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge 2, a competition hosted by Amazon that began in January 2023. This challenge invites teams to build chat bots, or dialogue systems, that can assist users with DIY tasks around the home.

Opinion | ChatGPT feels human, but reminds us it’s not

By Harsh Hiwase, Senior Staff Columnist • January 30, 2023

It's exciting to see how far this technology can advance and how accessible it can be to the everyday user. Perhaps in a dystopian future, we’ll have bots making more of our decisions for us while we take a backseat and let everything run its automated course.