In my research essay I will be examining the implications of AI technology in image and text generation.  As AI image and text generation technology advances more and more I want to bring attention to the negative effects this technology will have on our society in the future.  Since AI technology is often funded by larger corporations, the advancement of this tool has arrived too fast for anyone to really think about what this means.  In order for an artificial intelligence to create something “new” it must first scrub through millions of images, videos, and data of already existing material.  AI’s image generation is simply an amalgamation of everything man already made, but lacking the purpose and novelty of it.  On top of being plain tasteless, it could have disastrous effects on people’s personal lives in the future.  With everyone being so tuned into virtual landscapes like social media, AI image and text generation can become a serious threat when it comes to fraudulent behavior like scamming or blackmail.  Suddenly even if you have a clean slate, someone using AI in the wrong way could use it to fabricate a distasteful or sexual image of you.  The implications of AI image and text generation are straight up dystopian and while there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop it, there definitely needs to be awareness and precaution moving forward. 

Sources

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2023.1245684/full

Background: This article discusses AI text generation being used in politics for captions on social media posts.

How I intend to use it: I will use this article to show how unreliable AI text generation is and how it not only steals someone’s job, but does it objectively worse. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0960085X.2022.2026621#d1e526

Background: This article discusses many negative factors of AI and what hypothetical methods could be used to regulate it.

How I intend to use it: I will use this article to dive into the lack of regulation surrounding AI.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02642069.2020.1787993

Background: This article discusses AI chatbots being used in customer service situations.

How I Intend to use it: I will use this article to show how AI replacements of man made work are way less efficient.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14244

Background: This article discusses fake AI generated profiles on social media

How I intend to use it: I will use this article to discuss how AI generated text and images are leading to entirely false social media profiles.

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/OCJ-08-2022-0014/full/html

Background: This article discusses AI powered deepfake technology.

How I intend to use it: I will use this article to discuss the dangerous implications of AI generated/altered images.