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AI and Creativity

In this resource learn to use AI as a tool to enhance your creative projects.

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AI and Creativity

IntroductionArtificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the creative landscape, offering new tools and possibilities for students across disciplines. This resource is designed to help you explore how AI can support and enhance your creative process, whether you're designing, writing, problem-solving, or experimenting with new ideas. By using AI as a collaborative tool, you can push the boundaries of your imagination while developing skills for the future.

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In this resource, you can learn how to use AI to support your creativity, get creative with some tasks to enhance your AI skills and/or explore some AI tools and prompting ideas to help you become more creative. To get started, choose from the menu below or navigate through the resource using the arrows provided.

Let's Get Creative!

AI, as your Creative Partner

AI Tools for Creativity

Prompting Practice

AI, as your Creative Partner

Getting confident with AI tools helps build your AI literacy, which is a valuable and in-demand skill across lots of different jobs. By experimenting with AI creatively and critically, you're not just enhancing your academic work, you’re also developing transferable skills that support your employability in a digital world.

AI, as your Creative Partner

AI is a powerful ally in the creative process. It can help students generate ideas, provide inspiration, assist with content creation and bring innovative ideas to life. Let's explore some effective ways to implement AI in your creativity projects. Select each of the icons below to learn more.

AI Image Generation

AI Writing Assistance

AI Video Editing

AI Music Generation

AI-Powered Graphic Design

AI, as your Creative Partner

Now, let’s explore some top tips when using AI as your creative partner. Select each icon below to unlock practical advice and inspiration.

1. AI as a Co-Creator, Not a Replacement

3. Iteration and Experimentation

2. Ethical AI use in Creativity

4. Avoiding AI Over-Reliance

5. Enhancing, not replacing

Let's get Creative with AI

In this section, select a task below to discover how you can get creative with AI! In each example, we provide a short video and suggest an example tool to try.

Generate AI Music

Create an AI-Generated Image

Write a Collaborative Story or Poem with AI

Let's get Creative with AI

Here are some other alternatives to try. Check out any of these suggested examples or think about one of your own, and learn how to get creative with AI.

Generate an AI Alter Ego

Create a Mind Map with AI

Create a Logo with AI

AI Tools for Creativity

Selecting the right AI tools for creative projects can enhance your productivity and spark innovation. On this page you can find links to the tools already mentioned in this resource, along with some additional suggestions to explore.

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Prompting Practice

In this section we want you to look at your prompting skills when using AI as your creative partner. By practicing and refining prompting skills, you can effectively collaborate with AI tools to enhance your creative endeavours. On the next page, we give instructions and some examples of prompts that elicit useful and creative responses from AI tools. Feel free to adapt these or create your own - there’s no right way to be creative with AI.

Prompting Practice

Clarity directly impacts the quality of AI generated outputs. To hone your prompting skills, it is always important to practice crafting clear and specific prompts. Here we take some of the creative tasks already mentioned in this resource and look at refining simple prompts. Some examples are provided in the following pages. Instructions1. Choose a Creative Task: Select a task relevant to your field of study or interest (e.g., writing, design, music, video). 2. Draft a Prompt: Write a prompt for the AI to perform the task. 3. Evaluate the Response: Assess the AI's output for relevance and creativity. 4. Refine the Prompt: Modify your prompt to improve the AI's response.

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Writing Support Example Initial (or Poor Prompt): 'Write a story.'Redefined Prompt: 'Write a 500-word science fiction story set in a future where humans live on Mars, focusing on the challenges of daily life.'

Music Generation Ideas Example Initial (or Poor) Prompt: 'Make a song'Redefined Prompt: 'Write lyrics for a chill indie-pop song about starting university, capturing feelings of nervousness and excitement.'

Prompting Practice

Design Inspiration ExampleInitial (or Poor Prompt): 'Create a logo.' Refined Prompt: 'Design a minimalist logo for a sustainable fashion brand called 'EcoThreads' that appeals to young adults.'

Video Concepts ExampleInitial (or Poor) Prompt: 'Give me a video idea.'Refined Prompt: 'Suggest a 60-second TikTok-style video concept to promote sustainable living for university students living in shared housing.'

Further Information

To deepen your understanding of how AI can be used in creative projects, here are some recommended articles and information:

How AI is transforming creativity and art - This article explores the profound impact of AI on various creative fields, including visual arts, music, and literature.

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Embracing Creativity: How AI can enhance the creative process - This blog post discusses how AI can serve as a powerful ally for artists, providing inspiration, generating ideas, and enhancing the creative process.

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How Generative AI can augment human creativity - An insightful article from Harvard Business Review on how Gen AI can supplement human creativity and help produce novel ideas.

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Return to this resource anytime if you need inspiration for using AI as your creative partner. Below, you will find links to the Queen's AI Hub and the AI Student Support page where you can explore more about optimising AI at university. Remember, AI is here to help, not take over.

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AI Hub

Wix's logo creation feature is a useful tool for sparking creativity during brand creation. By inputting the important information from your product into the tool's chatbot, options for logos and taglines will be generated in seconds. Try telling the chatbot about a new or existing product and see what logo it can generate.

AI Music Generation

AI tools like Suno can create songs in seconds using just a text prompt. Suno can generate original vocals and full tracks across different genres, helping students enhance creative projects, podcasts, or video content with custom music.

Try Suno

AI Tools for Image Generation

• DALL.E - Useful for detailed, high quality images.

• ChatGPT - Useful for creative and educational images.

• Microsoft Copilot - Useful for professional images.

• LTX Studio - Useful for visual storytelling.

• Wix Logo Maker - Useful for brand design.

Iteration and Experimentation

AI is great for rapid iteration and experimenting with ideas. Some tips for students include:

• Ask AI for multiple versions of an idea and choose the best parts.
• Use AI tools like Copilot or ChatGPT to rephrase ideas in different styles.
• Try AI-generated prompts to push creative boundaries.

Avoiding Over-Reliance

While AI is a powerful tool, relying on it too much limits original thinking. Signs of over-reliance include:

• Content feels generic or lacks a personal voice.
• AI-generated ideas don’t align with creative intent.
• AI becomes a crutch instead of a tool for inspiration.

Continuous reliance on AI for tasks may lead to a decline in our skills and knowledge. Balancing AI assistance with personal effort is crucial to keep our abilities sharp.

Heuristica is a mindmap and concept map creation tool. Its built in prompts allow you to intuitively explore different topics and concepts. Users can even chat with their maps to inspire new concepts. Choose a topic you are interested in and see how you can explore it with Heuristica.

AI Video Editing

Descript is a fun, beginner-friendly tool that helps students edit videos and audio just by editing the text. Great for class projects, presentations, podcasts, or YouTube content.

Try Descript

AI-Powered Graphic Design

AI-powered design tools modify content creation for students. They can generate templates, remove backgrounds, and enhance images. These tools allow for effortless design personalisation.

Try Canva

AI Image Generation

Using AI tools like DALL·E to generate images from text prompts can help non-designers bring visual ideas to life quickly. They can also save students time and effort rather than spending hours searching for the right stock image.

Try out DALL.E

ProWritingAid is a writing assistant that uses AI to support your academic and non-academic writing. Try inputting the opening paragraph of a story and see what suggestions the 'sparks' feature has.

Ethical AI Use in Creativity

Using AI responsibly ensures that creativity remains authentic. Some examples of best practice includes:

• Always credit AI-generated contributions when necessary.
• Avoid misrepresenting AI-generated work as entirely human-made.
• Be mindful of biases in AI-generated content.

AI Writing Assistance

Using AI tools like Copilot or ChatGPT for writing assistance can help students brainstorm ideas, structure their thoughts, and improve grammar and clarity. It’s a great way to boost productivity, especially when facing writer’s block or tight deadlines.

Try ChatGPT

Enhancing, not Replacing AI

AI should serve as an idea generator, not a final creator. Some enhancement techniques include:

• Blending AI-generated visuals with hand-drawn elements for originality.
• Use AI for overcoming writer’s block.
• Use AI to remix music, not just create tracks from scratch.
• Tailor AI-generated content to match personal or brand specific styles.

More AI Tools for Creativity

• Heuristica - Useful for revising with mindmaps and learning about a topic.

• Runway - Useful for AI video generation and editing.

• Synthesia - Useful for making videos with AI avatars. Create a script and go from idea to video in minutes.

LTX Studio can help you bring characters to life. From a detailed description of your character, AI will generate an idea of how that character would appear in real life. For visual thinkers, this can open a wide range of possibilities, especially for those involved in film or drama. Try using LTS to create an AI generated alternate version of yourself and see what is generated from your descriptions.

With OpenAI's powerful image generation, students can bring their ideas to life by turning text into stunning visuals and unlocking new creative possibilities with AI. Describe a scene from your favourite film or book and see what ChatGPT generates!

AI Tools for Writing

• ProWritingAid - Useful for creative storytellers.

• Grammarly - Useful for proofreading and clarity.

• QuillBot - Useful for rephrasing and summarising.

• Hemingway - Reflecting on your writing and improving readability.

AI Tools for Music Generation

• AIVA - Useful for composing music in various styles.

• SOUNDRAW - Useful for creating royalty free background music.

• LALAL - Useful for extracting vocals from backing tracks.

AIVA is a music generation tool that can create new music in almost any style you desire. These tracks can be edited as much as you need to create the perfect piece for your project. Select your favourite music genre and try and create a song you would listen to!

AI as a Co-Creator, Not a Replacement

AI can generate ideas, but human refinement makes them meaningful. Some examples include:

• Using ChatGPT for brainstorming but refining ideas with personal insights to add depth and relevance.
• Generating visual art with tools such as DALL·E or Adobe Firefly but tweaking them to match artistic intent and vision.

Try Adobe Firefly