Paul Freeman has begun his tenure as the Calgary Public Library's first creative in residence collaborating in AI, with his office open to the public every Tuesday and Wednesday until Labour Day. Freeman, a Calgary-born artist and AUArts graduate, first became involved with stable diffusion and AI image generation in 2002. He stated he is "not as an AI defender, not as an AI advocate" but as a resource to ask questions about AI art. Freeman emphasized that human intention is necessary, arguing that removing critical thought, desire, and intention allows anyone to "create a lot of junk real fast." He described using prompts to generate images, layering them together, and sending them through AI again to create works that can be "over 5 billion pixels in scale." Freeman noted that a fundamental question all artists struggle with is preventing their work from being stolen by AI, which he said needs to be addressed at a policy level. He hopes to convince people who raised concerns about the position through his work.