Hartford Art School Student Statement on Generative AI

Jules M

Fuck generative ai!!

dyani

As a recent UHart/HAS alum it’s very disheartening to see HAS feel comfortable to instill AI in the curriculum. It already feels like such a hard sell to get other schools within the University to partner with us. The tuition and resources we pay for did not teach us to feel comfortable to substitute the joys of the creative process with a machine to do it for us. I want better for HAS and for the future students that come through our halls.

Sade Wilkes

AI does not belong in an educational environment, this is crucial to us and the following generations of students and artists.

natalie mcdonald

AI art is ruining real art

Brooke Sterling

AI has no place in a curriculum meant to foster human creativity. The presence of generative AI in any classroom (let alone one meant to shape artists) is severely detrimental to students’ potential to learn and grow as individuals; AI would have them regurgitate vague and superficial ideas reaped, without permission, directly from someone else’s hard work. This endorsement is unethical, counterproductive and wildly discouraging for student and faculty artists alike.

Alex Kempner

Gen AI has no place in the arts. Art school is all about making it yourself, with your own hands, even if it’s bad. Not to mention the negative social and physical consequences that come along with the use of AI. Our future generations should not be punished because people today choose to use AI rather than doing it themselves

Fatma Akcay

I love art, it makes me sad when I see A.I implemented in our art education when we have prided ourselves in imagination and originality.

Ginevra DeCerbo

Ai and art don’t mix.

Becca Seckley

As a Uhart alum I am disappointed that our school would encourage generative AI. The joy of creating is experienced through CREATING. Not having a computer spit out an image or idea that was trained on the original ideas of artists WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. End gen AI. Keep it out of the art school.

Grey

AI damages crucial evaluation and conclusion skills necessary for world literacy. In application to the arts, AI images completely invalidate reality and tell us that our career pursuit is meaningless.

Jack Wiggin

You’re not here for it to be created for you.

Rebecca Wipperman

I’m an alumni. By endorsing the use of generative AI within the art school, UHART is reinforcing the idea that their students are fundamentally replaceable. Art is for the people and by the people. Not only does AI steal from existing art out there, but it strips the creativity, life, and meaning out of the work that artists work so hard and diligently to create. We spend years in the program to learn the fundamentals. AI rips what already exists to amalgamate lifeless images in seconds.

Nadia Ribeiro

Generative A.I. promotes laziness and the neglect of skill, patience, and pride in one’s ability. It has no place in learning and no place in the arts.

Jacob Miller

The study of art is the study to express one's inner humanity. To be vulnerable, and put your thoughts and emotions to canvas regardless of the perceived quality. As such, the use of generative AI in an Art School- or any school setting for that matter- is inherently flawed. It removes the creativity, emotion and human thought. Furthermore, as a HAS alumni, I can safely say that if I were paying thousands of dollars to learn the fundamentals of art I would immediately pursue a different college.

Cosmos Tetreault

Art should stay human. We are far better than the pale imitations they can churn out.