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Topics in Communication Studies (395-0-25)

Topic

Generative AI & The Media

Instructors

Nicholas Diakopoulos

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 3417: Tues 9:00AM - 11:50AM

Overview of class

Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 generative AI has proliferated throughout society, capturing the imagination of the public with its potential to upend much of how people create and consume media and information. In this course we'll demystify this new technology, understand how it works, how to control it through prompting, and how to implement it in various use cases found in media production and communication. We'll also step back with a critical eye to ask questions of how generative AI changes the larger media system and raises ethical and governance issues around data, copyright, privacy, bias, and more.