I just built my first project, which is a mood-based prompt writer. It is essentially a program that takes the user’s mood as input, and then the AI builds a short writing prompt based on that specific mood. As a reader and writer who was super worried about my first official project, it just made sense to make something I might actually use. After building it, however, I started wondering deeply about AI generative content and its effects on art. As a person in the creative world, I have seen the destructiveness of it. AI art winning art competitions, AI-generated music and AI-generated novels being passed off as one's own writing are currently destroying and undermining the current landscape. So after building it, I feel in a dilemma, am I endorsing exactly what is destroying something I love? What is it exactly that separates my project output from theirs? There’s also the nuance of AI’s usefulness.…