AI - do you like the idea of it, or not?

[HockyRorror]

Just a general thread about what you think of AI. It’s got such a range. I think it’s mostly bad, but interesting. This is something I found earlier. It just amazes me how something that sounds so real is also completely made up



Feel free to share examples

 

[UnknownTattler]

I'm wary of giving the machines too much power, and I won't have an Alexa in my house (although I'm often on my tablet or phone which are probably listening to me anyway ).

This is an interesting and slightly creepy site, it generates photos of people who don't exist:

ThisPersonDoesNotExist - Random AI Generated Photos of Fake Persons

Generate random human face in 1 click and download it! AI generated fake person photos: man, woman or child.

this-person-does-not-exist.com

 

[Sibz]

I'm wary of giving the machines too much power, and I won't have an Alexa in my house (although I'm often on my tablet or phone which are probably listening to me anyway ).

This is an interesting and slightly creepy site, it generates photos of people who don't exist:

ThisPersonDoesNotExist - Random AI Generated Photos of Fake Persons

Generate random human face in 1 click and download it! AI generated fake person photos: man, woman or child.

this-person-does-not-exist.com

Whoa, imagine clicking it and getting a random image looking like yourself or someone you know one in a billion chance though, it blows my mind how there are billions of humans and not one of us look exactly the same, even indentical twins are slightly different

 

[Ensay]

I think it has its uses, but it should be strictly monitored as the more intelligent AI becomes, the more of a threat it might be.

I’m not really talking about robots attacking us, but more we could become over reliant on it (eg self driving cars), or could be taken over by hackers who misuse it.

 

[Sibz]

I worry how it could be used by powerful people to distort the truth. Artifical video/photo evidence to frame someone innocent for a crime for example or used as propaganda by leaders to spread lies, and then the ripple effect of tons of guilty people getting away with stuff when they are caught on camera as they can claim it was edited by AI. It could become advanced enough that we no longer know what's real and what's artificially created.

 

[HockyRorror]

I'm wary of giving the machines too much power, and I won't have an Alexa in my house (although I'm often on my tablet or phone which are probably listening to me anyway ).

This is an interesting and slightly creepy site, it generates photos of people who don't exist:

ThisPersonDoesNotExist - Random AI Generated Photos of Fake Persons

Generate random human face in 1 click and download it! AI generated fake person photos: man, woman or child.

this-person-does-not-exist.com

i LOVE that website. But don’t know if they changed it or it’s a duplicate because it looks different to the site I visited, and my site didn’t have hyphens in it. It also had a cat version and a horse version which produced terrifying results.

I’ve also seen people blatantly use these photos as Twitter profiles.
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I worry how it could be used by powerful people to distort the truth. Artifical video/photo evidence to frame someone innocent for a crime for example or used as propaganda by leaders to spread lies, and then the ripple effect of tons of guilty people getting away with stuff when they are caught on camera as they can claim it was edited by AI. It could become advanced enough that we no longer know what's real and what's artificially created.

Thats my concern too, as well as faked revenge porn at a cost to your job, career and dignity

 

[emmer_moans]

Loss of jobs worries me. Back office admin roles will be first to go but those jobs are a lifeline for so many. There's a fine line between using tech to improve efficiency but not making human workers obsolete.

 

[HockyRorror]

There’s a programme on ITV tonight at 8:30pm about AI, just announced on the news, it was announced after a news story something about Elon Musk and other powerful people signing a letter to (?) urging for the halt on AI.

 

[Snippysnips]

It's tricky because if used correctly then it could be amazing especially in medical terms like helping surgeons reconstruct things

But at the same time I don't like that it's being used to force people out a lively hood like artists, authors, digital photographers etc some skills take a lifetime to master an are being phased out for AI that can mass produce for cheap

Am also wary of hackers, nothing is ever safe an AI is no exception, an those using it for fraud an blackmail as well

 

[HockyRorror]

 

[emmer_moans]

'Breathing, sweating, shivering' climate test bot made for heat waves

ANDI, the climate test droid, has synthetic pores for artificial sweating, temperature sensors and heat flux sensors across the 35 different surface areas covering its body

www.dailymail.co.uk

Shivering, sweating robots? No no nooooo. I get really creeped out when I see robots that look like a humanoid shape, or have computerised voices etc. Alright, I get it's for research but the image of it still makes me uneasy

I don't mind other robotics like say those bomb disposal arm things because they are more like a tool used by humans. Anything that tries to mimic humans though, ugh noooo.

 

[emmer_moans]

Also, this is scary too.

People have managed to make it sound like Ariana Grande singing in Punjabi, Kanye West singing Country, Michael Jackson covering songs that came out after his death, etc.

Streaming sites now scrambling to try detect AI tracks to weed them out.

Art will be dead when record companies won't have to pay actual artists.

'Regulate it before we're all finished': Musicians react to AI songs flooding the internet

Can you tell the difference between a Drake original and a track featuring an AI-generated voice?

news.sky.com

 

[TooFarScone]

Thats my concern too, as well as faked revenge porn at a cost to your job, career and dignity

There was a TikTok trend going round a while ago where people were ordering these big pickles, covering them in sweets and filming themselves lifting them to their wide-opened mouth and taking a bite. Maybe I'm warped but I thought (and still do) it was some kind of plot to save up videos so they could be made into deepfakes down the line.