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All in on AI : A critical look on the effects of AI

Hagen, Denzel K. (2025) All in on AI : A critical look on the effects of AI.

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Abstract:We investigate the influence that use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools might have on a creator and their creative process. The main three aspects that were investigated on how they were influenced are the creator’s sense of authorship, enjoyment, and decisions. Since there is little precedent for this kind of research that specifically look at influence on and decisions made by a creator in this way, we have made our own method to record data, combining surveys with autoethnography. To test different artistic fields and different tools in one process, we have gone through the game development process using a selection of appropriate generative AI tools. These tools were selected on the basis of accessibility and popularity. Throughout the experiment, notes were taken periodically by filling in a form every hour, to record as much data as possible. At the end of each day, the creator also filled out a short report to include thoughts and other notes that might slip through the structure of the form. After this experiment was finished, the data was collected and analysed using ethnographical and statistical methods, and conclusions were drawn. The creator’s authorship was not fully maintained, as they felt they could not claim full ownership of the ideas without mentioning AI tools were used in its creation. The creator’s enjoyment was impaired by frustration, but this frustration might be balanced out by the shortcuts the tools provided. The tools will also likely push the final product in certain directions, as it is based on a lot of pre-existing information and is likely to stick to that. Therefore, if there is a lot of a certain type of information, its output is more likely to use that information. Finally, the tools will likely limit the creator’s final product, and possibly the creator themselves, by how the content they create is limited by the censors implemented in the tools.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:02 science and culture in general, 21 art forms, 54 computer science, 76 recreation, leisure
Programme:Creative Technology BSc (50447)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/105121
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