Erica Siaulinski, Staff Writer
Since the development of AI and its growing accessibility, more and more people have been able to experiment with it. From completing assignments for students to creating life-like, impossible-to-decipher images, the argument about AI and its damage, as well as misuse, has grown. Known as a “deepfake”, an image or video of a person in which their body or face has been altered digitally, these types of videos and images have been spreading amongst a large population of people. Children being used in AI and having deepfakes created by them has already raised huge concerns across law enforcement about how to handle it.
While some find AI to be more harmful than good, others argue that its misuse is worth the huge breakthroughs it is able to provide. Entire fields are being replaced with AI already, and more are predicted to follow. AI singers, influencers, actors, and more have already been created and are only becoming more and more impossible to tell apart from real people.
Schools across the world have had multiple instances of dealing with AI, from cheating on assignments to students creating harmful, damaging images of one and other. UNICEF warned that “deepfake abuse is abuse”, stating that the damage of these deepfakes is both harmful and urgent. The U.N has urged multiple AI programs to enforce safety protocols to prevent the creation of harmful media. While most AI programs have still not enforced any type of safety protocols.
Educators across the world have already faced the dilemma of what to do about AI and how to handle its ability to rapidly complete assignments for students. Many educators are also unable to keep up with the intense growth of AI and its ability to seem more human-like by the day.
The medical field is also seeing the effects of AI as well. While AI is able to detect and prescribe certain smaller things as compared to the human eye and judgment, there is also be a huge concern for safety and privacy. AI is still developing, and the security features are developing along with that.
While careers are being threatened by AI, a new phenomenon of “AI psychosis” has also raised concern amongst medical and mental health professionals. This new emerging concern happens when a person relies on AI for a prolonged amount of time, for an assortment of things, advice, help with work or assignments, or anything else, in which they become so used to using AI that they become detached from reality and completely rely on AI, and without it, they are unable to think for themselves.
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