This guide will address the negative effects of generative AI
The research questions addressed in this guide are:
Though generative AI is a relatively new technology, it has affected human creativity, judgment, and culture. Propaganda and misinformation have crept their way into every corner of the internet. Almost every other scroll on TikTok or YouTube, you can find AI-generated 'slop.' The objectification and mistreatment of women has accelerated rapidly with generative AI making it easy for people to create explicit images and videos of celebrities and the average woman. Politicians are using fake AI-generated images to promote their campaign and spread false information. This research paper explores all these issues regarding generative AI. It answers the question, ‘how is AI directly impacting our society?’ Articles used to put this paper together were gathered from SVC databases, journalistic articles, and websites from prestigious universities. The results from each website and article pointed to the same answer: generative AI has done more harm to society than good. Artists have had their work stolen by big media companies to train AI. Voters have seen their president comment on and share AI-generated propaganda. Women have woken up to explicit AI-generated videos of themselves. Movie and media culture has forever been changed by generative AI. Future researchers need to dive deeper into each of these issues to discover what they can do to prevent the side effects of generative AI from harming people. Not all AI is bad, but too much of it in the hands of corrupt people can have a staggering effect on society.
Generative AI has been around since the early 1960s, though it was a lot less advanced. AI began to excel technologically in the late 2010s, but it still wasn't as impressive as it is today. Most people made fun of the strange and eerie videos/images it made, mainly because they looked so inhuman. In the last few years, however, AI has become increasingly more realistic. Now, it's copying the style famous animators spent their lives creating (Pérez Colomé). It's generating fake, nonconsensual, explicit images and videos of regular people and celebrities (Miraldi). Videos that look incredibly real. AI is now also easily accessible to the general public, meaning high school students all over the world can create gross videos of their classmates (Langreo). Even the president of the United States has used, shared, and commented on AI-generated videos/images (Vigdor). What was once a technology that everyone laughed at is now stealing jobs and artwork from artists (Goel). Generative AI has become more powerful, more influential, and more commercial. “While AI-generated images had their moment of glory even before the arrival of ChatGPT, they now seem to be reaching an even wider audience. Over the past 12 months, ChatGPT usage has surged to an all-time high, according to Google Trends” (Pérez Colomé). Where 12 months ago AI was an overlooked technology, now it's a part of every other video on social media.
This video addresses the issue of tech companies stealing artists' work to train their AI. It talks about how when artists post their work on social media apps and other places, the companies running the apps take their work without consent to train their AI.
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The video below shows how big tech companies behind the social media apps we use daily steal from independent artists. The speaker describes how the work is stolen and gives solutions on how to stop this from happening. This resource is important to my topic because it shows a current event happening to artists and social media users.
"How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED." YouTube, uploaded by TED, 9 May 2024, "How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It"
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