What current AI-related issues, developments, or decisions do you find especially relevant to contemporary society? Craft a short post to give your classmates an overview of the issues involved and why it’s so important.

I think one of the most popular issues that are being raised by society is the ethical use of AI in the academic or research field. Nowadays, there are so many AI tools that can be used to boost your productivity, such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Midjourney. However, the existence of those tools and their use blur the lines around authorship, originality, and intellectual integrity.

In school, with the help of AI, students can now generate a whole essay or a thousand lines of code with just a click. This has raised a serious question about plagiarism, the learning process, or “aigiarism” – the plagiarism using AI. In the workspace, people also raise a debate about whether they should consider AI-generated context as part of the contribution, which could potentially affect the hiring process and performance.

These issues are very important because they create a longstanding assumption about what creativity is. As AI tools are getting easier to access and considering how powerful they are, we urgently need updated policies and education guidelines to ensure that AI can be a righteous tool to enhance human capabilities without replacing human work.

Sources:
https://crossplag.com/what-is-aigiarism/

As AI has become more common in schools and workplaces, it has caused a lot of difficult ethical issues. Johnson and Smith say, The challenge isn’t whether to use AI tools, but how to use them in ways that enhance rather than diminish human capability and agency.When deciding how to use AI correctly, we need to think about both the purpose and the outcome. Are we using AI to skip learning or to help us understand better? When AI helps with jobs that usually help build basic skills, like writing, solving problems, and critical thinking, there are some gray areas.While AI is useful, it can’t take the place of human judgment and experience. Policies that work must be clear and flexible. We don’t need strict rules that forbid everything. Instead, we need standards that take AI’s potential into account while still protecting the integrity of education.It is important that mobility should be at the center of policymaking. AI tools can level the playing field for students with disabilities by giving them different ways to show what they know that they might not be able to do otherwise.The people who work in the future will need to know how to use AI and have skills that AI can’t copy. How ready our kids are for this reality tomorrow will depend on the rules we set for schools today.

I saw some interesting patterns in the creative abilities of both ChatGPT and Claude AI today as I tested them. At first, I asked for poems without giving any details about the title or subject. Both AIs wrote abstract poems that were hard to understand. They used a lot of metaphors and philosophical thoughts that, while they may have been well written technically, didn’t make me feel anything.

But when I gave them more specific information asking for poems about a Japanese father who is 50 years old they immediately came up with simple poems that anyone could understand. The pictures became more real: views of mountains, cherry blossoms, and special times between a father and his child took the place of the vague ideas they had used before.

This experience backs up what I said last week  if you want accurate and useful responses from AI systems, you need to be very clear about what you want. The result will be more like what you wanted if you give more information. This is true not only for creative writing, but also for finding information, writing code, and solving problems.

I also saw that these AI systems might be biased. All of the names they came up with for their characters were Western or white-sounding, which I thought was an interesting pattern that should be looked into further. Even though both systems are meant to show different points of view, this small bias suggests that their training data may have imbalances that affect the creative work they produce.

In this comparison, both the pros and cons of the current AI language models are shown. It’s easy for them to follow specific instructions, but it’s hard for them to be creative in general. They can make content that sounds a lot like human speech, but it still shows patterns that come from their training data instead of real understanding or cultural awareness.

The lesson for people who want to get the most out of these AI systems is clear: being precise with your prompts will lead to precise results. When you ask for vague things, you get vague answers. But when you give these systems thoughtful, detailed prompts, they can do everything they can.

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Summary:

AI-generated images and videos offer creative possibilities but raise serious ethical concerns like misinformation, unfair use of artists’ work, and a loss of trust in media. To use them responsibly, there should be transparency, consent, and accountability. While AI can be helpful in areas like entertainment, it needs strict limits in sensitive areas like news and politics.

I can imagine using AI-generated art. Like, while brainstorming and developing ideas. Without spending hours on preliminary drawings, writers, designers, or artists might utilize AI to produce mood boards swiftly, come up with visual ideas, or sketch rough drafts. AI art may also be helpful in social media and marketing, where short, eye-catching pictures are frequently needed for banners, posters, and background images, as originality is not that important in banners and posters. 

However, there are several situations in which I would never think about utilizing AI-generated art. Which includes the creation of personal fine arts, such as family paintings or wedding pictures, where the human artist’s emotional depth and connection are crucial. Additionally, as AI may overlook crucial details or inadvertently misrepresent spiritual meanings, I would refrain from employing AI-generated art for cultural or heritage-based artworks, particularly when they deal with customs and histories.

Recently, AI (such as ChatGPT) has developed a new function to generate pictures and images. Like the application of AI in academic writing mentioned earlier, using AI to create pictures also brings many conveniences and potential ethical issues.

First of all, let’s talk about the convenience of AI generating pictures. AI can generate pictures of any style, just like generating articles. For example, I gave ChatGPT the command “Generate a picture of The Return of the Condor Heroes for me”. Such characters do not exist in daily life, and may have been described in novels. But ChatGPT can better visualize the image on the text. For example, some special effects and advertisements, Coca-Cola uses some AI for advertising, shooting, and production. AI can assist in producing some videos that are difficult to shoot on site, such as special effects transitions. In daily life, ChatGPT can also perform fine-tuning and animation of self-portraits.

However, as mentioned earlier about the copyright and plagiarism issues of AI, AI cannot guarantee originality. AI can grab online and synthesize according to the input instructions. If AI becomes more and more mature in the generation of movies and pictures, this will lead to challenges to the employment of art and film and television practitioners. Can people accept AI artworks? For example, if AI can generate a portrait like Mona Lisa, will humans accept that the painter is an expressionless AI? Will the human artistic level decline or even disappear completely in a few decades due to excessive reliance on AI art creation?