AI, otherwise known as Artificial Intelligence, has been on the rise in the last few years. It used to be a small feature within most devices that makes our lives just a bit easier but now it has become a threat to many.
With the popularity that Chatgpt has gained, many other social medias like Twitter, or X now, instagram, photoshop and many more are creating their own AI assistants that can answer any question or generate images.
But what makes it a threat? There’s many reasons.
The reason why AI is able to generate images or art work of whatever prompt you type in, they are actively searching all over the internet of other artists work and photographs to “train” the AI to replicate. Which means they are stealing other peoples work and combining them to create a jumbled and, in my opinion, an ugly mess. There has been many cases of artists being able to identify that the AI stole exactly their work and self proclaimed “AI Artists” try to claim the work as theirs. Many have even sued.
This type of AI is threatening future artists jobs, as a lot of companies have used AI to create logos, promotional artwork and ads instead of paying an artists or designer to create for them.
This is also dangerous to the older generation. Anyone can use an AI image generator to create any kind of image they want, which can lead to pushing an agenda for any issue. There has been a significant rise in using AI for and against politicians, which many older generation people will believe is true because they aren’t able to quickly identify the specific style that AI images have.
Overall, I think the usage of AI had good intentions at first but now it is getting into extremely dangerous territory if it continues to evolve. I personally think everyone should stop or limit their AI use and that social media and other companies should cancel any of their AI extension plans.