Today’s Daily Create challenges participants to make a FitBit type device to measure something that would not usually be measured. My suggestion is a remixometer – a way of measuring the amount of originality, ingenuity … whatever property or quality we think we might measure when we look at the various remixes that we see. This is the one that I submitted – the scale left open for the reader to decide (my scale is from ‘copy’ at the red side to ‘remix’ on the green side).
“DS106 Remixometer” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
This remixometer is inspired by Austin Kleon’s Steal like an Artist, and when I flicked through that book again to write this post I realised that I was probably basing my remix on something like this
Steal Like an Artist, p39
Which is why an earlier version of my remixometer had these values
“Remixometer” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
“Writers block” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Sitting on a Sunday afternoon, wondering what to do that is vaguely ETMooc2 related, I open up Chat GPT and ask it to write me a haiku about writer’s block. Then, inspired by Kevin’s blog post, I put the haiku into NightCafe and ask it to generate four images for me. I jump over to PowerPoint to add the words to the images, and upload the result to Flickr.
Then I opened up AI Test kitchen and put the prompt into that to generate some music, upload that to SoundCloud, grab the url and embed it here. All this only takes a few minutes, though I stopped to make a cuppa along the way.
I’m enjoying these experiments with ChatGPT – the difficult thing is to work out a good prompt for the AI to respond to.
Activity #1 – Marshall McLuhan Tetrad of Effects for Generative AI: What are the opportunities and challenges presented by the evolution of technologies in the digital age? View the following video (3:45) for an example of McLuhan’s Tetrad OR search for other examples. Brainstorm changes that are already occurring or will occur with the use of generative AI in your context. Add ideas to each of the following four quadrants: enhance, obsolete, retrieve, reverse.
I wondered how this might apply to my favourite non-MOOC activity, the Daily Create.
“McLuhan’s Tetrad” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
The Daily Create amplifies creativity, by encouraging DS106ers to create something every day. It makes copying obsolete, as the ethos is remix, not plagiarism. It retrieves inspiration, with a new prompt every day. There are no unexpected dissatisfactions, just a warning that #DS106 is #4Life
