As a teacher, is there any way to determine if a student is using generative AI to create some of their artwork? Are there telltale signs, OR would I need to spend time with prompts to see if I can recreate the artwork? Thanks
You will not be able to recreate it with AI. THe AI will generate something different every time.
If it is precisee artwork, such as logos or icons, then it's easy: AI generated art will always lack the necessary precision. It will not have exact symmetry etc.
Pretty much always in AI generated art, shapes will be neighboured, not overlapping. So if none of the shapes overlap, then this makes it pretty certain that it has been generated. Unless Live paint has been used. But then: you never use Live paint on the complete image.
Anyway: if they are using LIve paint, ask your students to keep it live when handing in the assignment.
Also: you can make them hand in a written statement in which they sign that they have drawn everything themselves.
Thanks, I see what you mean. It seems like it sometimes stacks shapes, such as the shapes used to make the mouth in the screenshot, while other shapes are not stacked....
AI is inherently pixel based and needs to be autotraced. So that result is what the tracing setting "Overlapping" does. It's probably not how you and I would draw this. So in order to know whether or not something has been generated, you would need to look at different things and also draw on your intricate knowledge of how the application works.
In addition what you can do:
- make the students sign that they created this themselves without the help of A.I. (at universities this might be standard procedure anyway)
- if they have a school license: have IT turn off the A.I. functionality
- have the students document their process as part of the assignment in order to reflect their work
AI can generate some interesting imagery, but there will almost always be some sort of odd-looking quality to the artwork, along with various technical glitches. AI struggles with a lot of the finer details. Very often the imagery has to be re-worked to be made production ready.
I attached an image from a project I worked on recently for a local Tex-Mex restaurant. The client had used some sort of AI-based tool to generate a somewhat abstract illustration of a young woman. They wanted the image to be part of their brand. I had to spend a good amount of time building clean vector art over the original image as well as correcting various flaws.
Obviously a bunch of people are trying to use AI as a cheat or crutch. It's not too difficult to spot the mistakes in it.
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