Homework 1: Real or fake!?
PAT 498/598: Music and AI (Winter 2025)
Due at 11:59pm ET on January 22
Content
Instructions
- All assignments must be completed on your own. You are welcome to exchange ideas with your peers, but this should be in the form of concepts and discussion, not in the form of writing and code.
- Please provide proper citations/references for any external resources you use in your writing and code.
- Please submit your work to Gradescope.
- Late submissions will be deducted by 1 point per day. No late submission is allowed a week after the due date.
- This assignment will be graded by completion instead of correctness.
Q1: Is this a real image?
Q1.1: Mark Zuckerberg?
Q1.2: Pope Francis?
Q1.3: Pope Francis?
Q2: Are they a real person?
Q2.1
Q2.2
Q2.3
Q2.4
Q3: Is this the real president?
Q3.1: President Joe Biden?
Q3.2: President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Q3.3: President John F. Kennedy?
Q4: Is this Drake?
Q4.1: Drake?
Q4.2: Drake?
Q5: Is this Monet?
Q5.1: Claude Monet?
Q5.2: Claude Monet?
Sources
CAUTION: Spoilers!
- Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? by Stuart A. Thompson, The New York Times, January 19, 2024.
- PHOTOS: Pope Francis in the United States, ABC 7 New York, September 27, 2015.
- Mark Zuckerberg for @LouisVuitton by andrew gao (@itsandrewgao), Twitter, March 28, 2023.
- Can you tell which piece of audio was made by AI? by JoElla Carman, Jason Abbruzzese and Kevin Collier, NBC News, March 7, 2024.
- Heart on My Sleeve by Ghostwriter977, HIGHLIGHT Music, YouTube (originally released on April 4, 2023 on TikTok)
- How the VIRAL AI Drake Song “Heart On My Sleeve” was Made by Aiden Kenway, YouTube, May 18, 2023.
- March 14 by Drake, 2018.
- AI vs Human Art – Can You Spot The Differences? Here’s 9 Comparisons by John Angelo Yap, August 29, 2024.