This is what ChatGPT told me my portfolio website should look like. This is my biggest problem with AI.
There is so much value in AI, to deny that would be ignorant. But, AI is math and therefore will never take a risk. It stands to gain nothing because it cannot lose. For that reason, it has no motivation or inclination to be creative in any true sense of the word. It cannot realistically do anything improbable, outside of the box, or new.
| BoyGenius website | The Cut That Always Bleeds | Mothers of Environmental Justice Oral History Project |
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| After only half a semester of coding education, I was able to create this website with the help of ChatGPT as a teacher. The AI model did not write the code, instead it taught me how to write the code. | The essay compared Josef Sackar’s testimony in We Wept Without Tears with Primo Levi’s writing to show how inevitability, numbness, and instinctive survival shaped life in the camps. I used ChatGPT as a sounding board to help tighten the structure and clean up the language, but the emotion, the argument, and the tone were completely mine. If I had written it with ChatGPT alone, it would’ve been good, but the human voice behind it is what made it actually great. | I worked on this project in partnership with an environmental justice group, helping shape the narrative and themes while centering the voices of the women who shared their stories. ChatGPT helped me refine the clarity and flow, but the direction and emotional core came from the collaboration and my own writing. |