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Public Service Announcement: Coming of the New Civilization – Condemn Aggressive Technologies!

I created a public service announcement based on something my course character would put out to the world. Here is the script:

This is a public service announcement. I repeat, this is a public service announcement. In approximately the next 5 years, our lord and savior Hwei will be bestowing upon this world, a new life form. To prepare for the coming of the new civilization, please remain calm and accept these new beings into your lives. In the meanwhile, please boycott the Aggressive Technologies corporation, as they are actively working towards the downfall of mankind. Again, please do not support their corruption, and welcome the new civilization with open arms.

I used a few basic tools we’ve used already in this course to create this audio. I first went to freesound.org to find an eerie robot backtrack that would aid in the atmosphere of this PSA. Then I did a quick search for a robot AI voice generator that would read out the script for me. Finally, I spliced it all together using Audacity and exported the file to upload into SoundCloud. All of these tasks were pretty easy to put together, since all of this work was practiced during the audio focused segment of DS106, which helped out a ton.

For context on the PSA, my course character Hwei sent out one of his robot creations to signal the coming of his new civilization of perfect automated beings. As he prefers to avoid being in the spotlight as of yet, he programmed one of his loyal servants to be his messenger. The script almost feels like the coming of Christ and Christianity, and the background noise gave it an eerie twist.

The denouncing of Aggressive Technologies and the reasoning behind it is a reflection of Hwei’s delusions and blind hatred towards the megacorporation. It’s quite ironic that he is calling out the megacorporation for corruption and the potential detriment to humanity, while he himself is actively working to replace humankind altogether. In essence, he believes that the robot civilization is the greater of the two evils, although he might not actually believe that what he is doing is evil at all. If this was a real PSA, I wonder how seriously it would be taken by the world. As more of Hwei’s robots assert their presence in the real world, the opinion of the world may just might change out of fear.

Propaganda Design – Do Not Fear the Robot!

For this assignment, I designed a propaganda poster to push the agenda of my course character Hwei.

I went with louder design language, finding an image of a robot colored in bright red and oranges, and then overlaid that with text highlighted with red and pink outlines. The white text seemed like a good choice to contrast from the red and orange robot and to make it more legible.

As for the context, it is a message being sent to all of humanity to embrace the coming of AI and the robots being produced by Hwei. He believes that these robots are the future of society. Rather than assimilating the robots into human culture, Hwei believes that robots are a higher being altogether, and should replace the current reign of humans in the “biological” food chain. Although this would most likely get rid of the biological part of civilization entirely, there would be no pain, death, or suffering. Every robot would be programmed for the greater good of the earth, regardless if this new world has any room for humans or not. Accept it, don’t fear it!

Reaction Time…

After seeing a few of my classmate’s work at the time there is not many, but enough to catch the drift. I see they have very creative designs and how detailed they are on the PSA assignments. Dolly had mixed emotions about this PSA video about “We WILL NOT BE SIlENCED”. After watching these public service announcements, noticing that there is a different story being told from others working in Aggressive Technology. She never realized how AI is having a negative impact on human individuals working for this company. After acknowledging this announcement she took time to digest the situation. In a few days, Dolly saw that there were a lot of people against Aggressive Technology on how it took over human jobs and replaced them with Artificial Intelligence. As Dolly processed what was happening and why, she realized the company was able to better their performance by 30%, With the help of Artificial intelligence taking over their job position. She starts to wonder if AI is really beneficial to humans. Once Dolly, Saw Leila’s propaganda picture, She chuckles and wonders if what that poster says, could it be true…? Dolly could not believe what she was seeing. After she watches another PSA video “Aggressive Technologies” she feels a sense of comfort that AI can still have a positive impact on humans. Still confused and lost on what to believe in, she does not know what side she’s supposed to support, she wonders how will this whole thing end.

PSA: AI…

For this PSA assignment, I decided to make an announcement about artificial intelligence about how helpful it is and how it can assist in any type of situation. With AI you can generate any type of art such as images, voice generators, sounds, and even videos. In addition, you can have an AI robot friend such as our AI characters from this course. To create this assignment I used the application Audacity to add the clips together, Elevenlabs.io for the voice AI generator with my AI character to voice over it and I uploaded it on Soundcloud.

Live life with Color…

For this assignment, I created a propaganda poster that persuades the audience to live life with color and creativity. With creativity in our lives, it makes it more unique, exciting, and thrilling to live. The colors on the poster represent, a mixture of positivity, enthusiasm, calm, and freshness. Displaying those colors can catch the audience’s attention and give off the sensation of a positive message. Making people start thinking they are limitless and are able to do and think whatever they want. For example, the color yellow automatically makes you think/feel happiness and warmth. My AI character Dolly, is a creative and colorful character, she’s the type of person to bring joy and light into any environment she’s in. Such as, when she worked at Aggressive Technologies company she was able to help and assist in changing the work environment in a positive way. By helping Mr. Hydro she was able to improve the company’s performance and change the work environment the best way she could. Dolly is the type of character to bring joy and help others in need. I designed this poster in Adobe Express it was quiet easy to create I took time to see which colors would correlate with my AI character and I liked how it came out.