Scenario C

A major commute hub has offered for your municipality to use the large info screens in their waiting areas to display public awareness announcements. This is great since you, as a dedicated public servant striving for the common good, have a lot to share with the residents of your town regarding the impact their everyday choices have on the environment, climate, public health (both mental and physical), privacy, and security. Yet after a month, no heads seem to be turning towards the screens displaying your thoughtful messages.

There are no funds available for hiring a copywriter or a graphic designer to make the text catchier or the slideshow more appealing. Your attempts to add background music resulted in questions about copyright and royalty payments. You are hoping that artificial intelligence can give your modest infomercials a much-needed makeover.

AI-generated motivational quote from inspirobot.me.

Phase 1

Hands-on option

Basic stage for the hands-on option

Explore and apply existing free online tools to generate text, a still background image, and music for a brief, catchy video emphasizing the importance of making small everyday choices to reduce one’s carbon footprint.

In-depth stage for the hands-on option

Turn the background image into a dynamic, animated visual with an AI tool (free online tools are fine; just beware of malware and avoid giving out any personal information).

Conceptual option

Basic stage for the conceptual option

Read about how AI models that generate images are trained. Where does the training data come from? Did the artists explicitly and knowingly consent to the use of their work as training data? What do you expect will happen (short- and long-term) when new AI models are trained with data that contain increasing quantities of AI-generated images?

In-depth stage for the conceptual option

Once you have completed this task, repeat it but this time for AI-composed music.