Bean Me Up Roastery

Bean Me Up, one of Centennial Village’s new featured businesses, is a newly opened cafe run by couple Michelle Mirelez and Nick Elizalde. The cafe opened in December, gaining traction from local families and park goers.

“Centennial Village was our first choice because it was right next to the park and there’s a lot of development happening in the area over the next few years,” Michelle said. “We wanted people to be able to walk to our shop and this location was able to satisfy that.”

Michelle and Nick both graduated from Lake County schools and hope to encourage students to visit their growing business.

“We want all students to know they are welcome here,” Michelle said. “If you bring your ID in, you can get a discount on your drink.”

While the immediate reaction of many involves concerns over shortcuts and plagiarism, other teachers find that this content can be helpful—or, rather, schools should be working with the program rather than against it. Mr. Ryan Popa, cybersecurity and business teacher, initially wanted to use the program for his business class—with business teaching, “time is money.”

“My first thought was, education is over as we know it. Students cheated enough,” Mr. Popa said. “But why not take advantage because you can’t put the genie back? The big thing is, how do we teach with the genie and make it useful. Going forward, there’s going to have to be some marrying of the two. If we’re going to truly educate you to move on into careers, those careers are going to be using bots.”

“Don’t Ban ChatGPT in schools, Teach with it” published by the New York Times stated that banning the program was the wrong move for several school districts— primarily because the attempts would not work in the long run or real world and partially because it can be used as a resource for teachers.

Besides being used for academic purposes, Chat GPT has been a powerful tool in helping those with errors in their code, fix the small bugs. Stephen Glombicki, sophomore, takes it one step further and uses a sister program to help write up to half of his code: all he has to do is push “tab.”

“I think it is powerful and I like the tool a lot, but it definitely has its bad side,” Stephen said. “It has to have better content moderation, you can’t ask it stuff that is harmful. It is a cybersecurity threat. A bunch of people have been asking it to write vulnerabilities.”

“You can’t make a dataset out of someone’s brain.”

Another form of AI on the rise is AI art like Dalle-E 2, which has split the artist community. AI art is created through instructions on how to replicate certain aesthetics; some systems will take existing images to create new pieces of art. There are systems that claim that what they create is unique, like AICAN—which does not pull from photos like other AI systems, but is instead fed tens of thousands of photos to learn different styles that spans over multiple centuries. As someone who is a part of smaller artist communities, Jemma Jacobsen, senior, is afraid of the implications that AI art holds with stealing the work of other creators.

“Art is a strong expression of all of my feelings,” Jemma said. “I draw things that I believe are beautiful. It’s all like coming from inside my brain, which you can’t make a dataset out of. A lot of people expect art to be free and do not realize the amount of time and effort that is put into creating

AI versus human-made: which is which?

To the left, guess which piece of artwork is AI-generated versus human-created. On front, guess which sentence was created by ChatGPT. Turn the paper upside down for the answers.

On this page, sentence #2 was produced by ChatGPT

The blue mountain piece generated by Dalle-E

The flower piece was created by Jemma Jacobsen, senior Answer Key quality artwork. Everyone can create art, and that is beautiful. I think that we’ve lost sight of the fact that just because it is a commodity doesn’t mean it’s not valuable.

The dystopian novel “1984” by George Orwell demonstrates a manipulative totalitarian goverment that dominates its citizens with the use of propaganda and surveillance.

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