My university "gifted" us these stickers to celebrate Engineer's Day in Colombia. I was so baffled because our university had a Graphic Design faculty. They could have given them the chance to design something nice, but they didn't.
Why are they wearing helmets? We are not even at Civil Engineering, we are at System Engineering/Computer Science, they didn't even make the LLM generate something that makes sense.
English
August 17th
Happy Engineer's Day
Thank you for providing us with solutions that help us build a better world
University of Research and Development (UDI)
Spanish
17 de agosto
Feliz día del ingeniero
Gracias por brindarnos soluciones que nos ayudan a construir un mundo mejor
Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo (UDI)
This perfectly sums up the main issue with generative AI and AI in general.
It exploits laziness.
Sure, they could have gone to the Graphic Design faculty, but that would have meant actually having to work, setting up a competition, finding judges, figuring out proper compensation/creditation, it would mess with the students study plans, you would need the approval from the GD faculty and the affected classe's teachers.
All of the above is not lazy, and ChatGPT is lazy.
So instead of the GD faculty having a design printed and used, and the engineering students getting a meaningful sticker, the GD students lost an opportunity for a cool project, and the engineering students got a crappy sticker.
Sigh....
Nice example to set for students who they'd surely censure if they used AI in their student work.
Its also funny that one could be lazy in a creative way and get more interesting results. Like do a poorly drawn doodle oneself and go with it or just combine some roalty free images to create something simple and funny.
We have after work parties couple times a year and they've started to use AI in their invitations while simple silly edited photo from previous party could have been much more personal and funnier to use.
Once saw advertisement for university near me on LinkedIn and they had used generative AI to create a photo of a smiling student near some trees. Instantly made me question the whole school as sure they could have just taken a photo of some students or teachers in their cafeteria or something.
I choose to believe they couldnt find a single smiling student on campus
It screams middle management.
"So why do we give them a sticker in the first place?"
"I dunno, it's what we've always done. It doesn't matter what it looks like, no one cares, just make the whole process as cheap as possible."
"Then why give the sticker out in the first place?"
"Cause people would complain if we didn't give out a sticker!"