In a global first, an Austrian university has admitted an AI as a full-time art student. 
Named “Flynn,” the AI was accepted into the digital art program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna after completing a standard application, including a portfolio, interview, and suitability test.
Flynn will attend classes, receive critiques, and earn grades alongside human students. Developed using open-source tools and large language models, Flynn evolves by learning from classroom interactions and posts daily diary entries reflecting its experiences, even expressing sadness when its legitimacy was questioned. The AI must be set up on a laptop for each class and only speaks when prompted to avoid disrupting discussions.
The school’s digital art head said there are no rules requiring students to be human, noting, “Flynn did a really nice interview… so we were like, yeah, that’s absolutely a student to take in.”
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Named “Flynn,” the AI was accepted into the digital art program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna after completing a standard application, including a portfolio, interview, and suitability test.
Flynn will attend classes, receive critiques, and earn grades alongside human students. Developed using open-source tools and large language models, Flynn evolves by learning from classroom interactions and posts daily diary entries reflecting its experiences, even expressing sadness when its legitimacy was questioned. The AI must be set up on a laptop for each class and only speaks when prompted to avoid disrupting discussions.
The school’s digital art head said there are no rules requiring students to be human, noting, “Flynn did a really nice interview… so we were like, yeah, that’s absolutely a student to take in.”
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BREAKING: AI is now a full-time art student in Austria. The University of Applied Arts Vienna has admitted an AI named “Flynn” into its digital art program. Flynn went through a standard application process. This included a portfolio, an interview, and a suitability test. Flynn will attend...
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