{"id":217514,"date":"2026-05-20T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/lsus-students-ponder-ais-impact-on-digital-arts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:50:13","slug":"lsus-students-ponder-ais-impact-on-digital-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/lsus-students-ponder-ais-impact-on-digital-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"LSUS Students Ponder AI&#8217;s Impact on Digital Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/higher-ed\/lsus-students-ponder-ais-impact-on-digital-arts\">LSUS Students Ponder AI&#8217;s Impact on Digital Arts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/higher-ed\/lsus-students-ponder-ais-impact-on-digital-arts\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/higher-ed\/lsus-students-ponder-ais-impact-on-digital-arts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 16:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graduates&#8217; Job Outlook<\/strong>: Ten recent digital arts graduates from LSUS are competing for jobs but face the challenge of AI-generated graphics flooding the market.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI&#8217;s Market Impact<\/strong>: AI&#8217;s affordability has lowered the cost barrier for graphic designs, potentially shifting artists&#8217; roles from creation to creative direction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instructors&#8217; Response<\/strong>: Jason Mackowiak and Allen Garcie emphasize framing AI as a tool like Photoshop, and are steering students to focus on local businesses valuing human-made art over AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human Creativity vs AI<\/strong>: Lisa Marshall believes that human creativity and understanding of business needs surpass AI&#8217;s capabilities, particularly for consistent and targeted messaging.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI&#8217;s Role in Planning<\/strong>: Katelyn Davis suggests using AI in the planning stages to gather initial ideas but stresses the importance of human creative ownership in the final product.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adaptation and Learning<\/strong>: Instructors encourage students to adapt to AI by working creatively with it, acknowledging its inevitability in the job market.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Effectiveness over Appearance<\/strong>: Marshall comments that AI-generated content must effectively reach and serve the intended audience to be considered successful.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Client Decisions<\/strong>: Marshall emphasizes that potential clients may see the limitations of AI when it fails to meet audience needs and business objectives effectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSUS Students Ponder AI&#8217;s Impact on Digital Arts https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/higher-ed\/lsus-students-ponder-ais-impact-on-digital-arts Publish Date: 2026-05-20 16:39:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/88fd855\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5824x2831+0+0\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fd7%2F10%2F3f4cc6174b85a0d78b032da7d573%2Fdigital-arts.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217516,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217514\/revisions\/217516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}