Over the last couple of years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly advanced, increasingly easy to access, and overall easier to use. Got a question? Just ask AI and it will give you an extremely detailed response. Have a ton of data you need analyzed? AI will flawlessly analyze the data in seconds when it takes a human exponentially longer to perform the same task. Need an entire book written about literally anything? All you have to do is hit enter.
AI doesn’t just help you with your homework, or analyze data, now it can create photo realistic pictures and even videos, and now, it can even clone your voice. Want to see Taylor Swift eating a burger in a crowded restaurant while asking you if you want to hang out later? Go ahead, but in doing so it creates the question of whether you should be able to do that. Should the public be allowed to create convincingly real looking videos and clone anyone’s voice with the touch of a button?
I asked senior Mathew Jolly for a student perspective on AI’s progression, and this is what he said, “I think overall AI’s a good thing, tool wise, but the photo and video generation are questionable.” He emphasized the ability to be able to tell an AI photo/video from a real one and thinks any hyper realistic photo or video should be water marked by law. He even admits that he has been fooled by an AI generated video. “I saw a video on my phone of some bunnies jumping on a trampoline and I didn’t know it was AI until I read the description and comments.”
AI can be an amazing tool for minimizing time consuming data analyzation, or asking questions and getting a personalized answer, but the direction that AI is going with photos and videos, needs to be looked over, because we are going to get to a point where there will be absolutely no way we can tell the difference.
