Growth Mindset Is Essential in the Age of AI

Eric Ortiz
5 min readApr 5, 2024
Learning is a lifelong journey. (Clint McCoy/Unsplash)

AI tools can create digital replicas of people today. They look and sound like an actual human being. Yet the whole thing is fake.

Joe Amditis created a video like this. It cost about a dollar to make.

Joe is the assistant director of products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. He, Stefanie Murray, and the Center team have been ahead of the curve in journalism for a long time. Lately, Joe has been experimenting with AI tools to show how powerful this technology is.

As an added value, he developed free guides to share his learning.

Beginner’s guide: Custom GPTs for local news publishers

Beginner’s prompt handbook: ChatGPT for local news publishers

A beginner’s guide to image generation with DALL-E 3 (with a gallery of 77 different art styles)

AI is here to stay, and things will get weirder. Before long, the average person won’t be able to tell the difference between an authentic video and a synthetic one, created by a computer. As Digital Joe explained, this type of technology, with visual effects, has existed in Hollywood for years. Now, it is available for anyone with a laptop and a few bucks to spare.

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Eric Ortiz

Journalism leader and community builder. Author of children’s book “How the Zookalex Saved the Village.” bit.ly/zookalex