Generative AI tools can automate many creative tasks, but some worry they could make us passive consumers, rather than creative producers.
Artists and researchers are searching for ways to develop AI tools that boost human creativity rather than strip it from us.
The aim is to develop technology that pushes people to be better at composing music, developing games, designing toys, and much more.
Such technology could lay the groundwork for a future in which humans and machines collaborate to create.
The AI models can offer creative prompts to steer people in surprising new directions, or they can act as a creative sounding board, pushing people to rethink their assumptions.
Despite the impressive algorithmic progress, interaction design is often overlooked, and the struggle to achieve the desired result can make people overly reliant on AI.
Ultimately, generative models could offer artists and designers a whole new medium, pushing them to make things they couldn’t have made before—and giving everyone creative superpowers.