The first half of Unit 3 was somewhat circuitous and unfocused. The idea was to explore the potential of ChatGPT and Midjourney (AI image generator), but it was difficult to land on exactly what I wanted to do and why. Perhaps because the technology is so new, most of the work became about testing the boundaries of its creativity, seeing what kind of content it could create and in the process understand best practices to get the most out of it.
Initially one of the ideas I had was to use ChatGPT and Midjourney to create a fan fiction zine about popular 90s films. I began by looking at the movie Home Alone, as it was made in 1990, and asked Chat GPT to create different articles, poems and short stories about the movie. I then asked Midjourney to generate images that could populate the zine. In the end, I found it impossible to create something of substance that I was happy with, but it was an interesting lesson in the dark arts of creative AI.
