We are training an ethical, open-source LLM using 20+ years of student work from the ITP program at NYU Tisch.  Our model will be trained on a comprehensive archive of creative media artwork — including video, sculpture, writing, animation, game design, and virtual reality. Our goal is to reflect the creative legacy of the ITP community with a model that can converse, reflect on the creative legacy of ITP, and generate new work informed by ITP’s past.
During the Summer 2024, I organized the team to work on the front and back end intensively. The Dev team deployed the vector database and RAG at back end. In the front end, I proposed the Workspace UI, which we later named as Creative Biosphere, and designed it with Cara Cai. It is our first product to be delivered within the project.
In the Creative Biosphere, we explored the possibilities in the Interaction-Centered LLM by moving away from the type-based input and experiment with a workspace user flow that enhance creativity.
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It is an open source project, if you're interested in contributing to the project or wish to learn about how something like this can be deployed for your organization/institution, please feel free to reach out to us at chat.itp@itp.nyu.edu