I’m fascinated by Artificial Intelligence. Computers can talk to us. They help us think through problems. This interaction resembles how we bounce ideas off each other. These concepts are straight out of Star Trek. Who wouldn’t want their own personal Holodeck?
There’s a dark side to AI — deep fakes. This new technology can be used by those who want to promote false information. Artists work can be compiled into new work, virtually stealing all their hard won effort for their talents. Books are being written by AI through software that compiles information based on a topic.
This post is just a teaser about some of the topics I’ve been researching. Today, I read an article in the Washington Post about deepfakes. It has real and deepfake audios of both Trump and Harris. It also gives you some pointers to listen for in recordings. Can you guess which is real and which isn’t?
I find it fascinating, amazing and fun as long as it does not replace creativity, that’s my big fear about AI. I use it for filters on my images and a lot of my writings and it helps me with my searches that’s about as far as I go with it. Like I said as long as it doesn’t kill creativity and humanity desire to make new and refreshing things. I love it.
I agree. There are a lot of benefits to AI when used for the true intent as a tool for us to be more productive. I saw an interview the other day with Kenny G where he expressed his concerns about AI using clips of his music and making entirely new songs. I agree with him. Using AI in this manner is theft.
Interesting, indeed. There’s reporting about the use of AI in misinformation campaigns during this election and in Europe.
Yes, I’ve been reading a lot about the misinformation used during the campaign. Technology has progressed faster than what we can manage. How we learn about current events can be tainted by the bias or adjenda of the reporter. Its almost akin to false advertisment.
Joni, this is another reason we have to be on our guard. I have also noticed a trend that near perfect icons are replacing human faces in ads. My belief is it is cheaper to do that, so a model does not have to be paid.
Then there are the fakes you reference. It’s funny, if you look long enough you can find negative footage on anyone, especially with taking a feed out of context. So, the deepfakes are not needed. My guess is they are also cheaper and more expedient to produce.
With the president one need not have to look hard for inane footage of him. Keith
So true.
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I come from a very small and complex language backround – Finnish. AI is constantly failing grammar. This reveals the AI as such a potential source for misinformation. When the AI does not know an expression or correct wording, it makes up words. Same applies to information. It has no scrutany, as it picks up bits and pieces from here and there in the net. It reflects what people say and amplifies volume of opinions, while at the same time creates a new class of ignorant people, who think they have a direct access to reliable information.
A small scandall happened here, when a company doing school photographs had used an AI to “better” the photos of children. It had rendered a bunch of kids unrecognizable by retushing freckles and other “beauty fails” out of their photos. Who taught the AI that freckles are ugly? Now it taught the kids it.
I guess the AI is just fine in a closed environment for strictly limited use, like for example when the police needs to go through a massive amount of information in a rush, but even then I would prefer the same work was done by an actual police officer before any court cases.
The AI appears as an equalizing tool for self expression for people who have no creative skills, or even talent, but who have a strive for it. Look what sort of an artist has become of the current US president, and how the AI reveals, because it is just a dumb tool, some subconscious self imagery about him, to those willing to look and admit what they really see; like almost every time he releases an AI generated image, or a video of himself, he is bearing the vestments of some villain from popular culture. He posted himself as a muscular jedi knight, but was wearing black and bore a red lightsabre, so he was actually a sith. Then he posted himself as the lunatic colonel from the Apocalypse Now, who plays Wagner (Hitler’s favourite composer) when his helicopter unit attacks a Vietnamese village and fires vantonly at a school. The video he just released depicts Russel Voight as the grim reaper (befitting as he wants to cut medical support from people suffering from AIDS), and himself as some sort of cloaked cultist tolling a bell.