The dangers of AI to cryptozoology
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:07 am
Morning all,
In the past six months, you will all no doubt have become aware of the technology commonly known as 'AI' or 'Artificial Intelligence'.
Already, AI and machine learning-enabled technologies are used in medicine, transportation, robotics, science, education, the military, surveillance, finance and its regulation, agriculture, entertainment, retail, customer service, and manufacturing, just to name a few.
AI isn't new, especially to the various military agencies across the world, but it's pervasive, and in use in many common everyday ways.
For example, if you're Googling something, you're making use of AI.
If you're using a smart phone with autocorrect, or Siri etc., you're making use of AI.
If you're watching movies, you're watching CGI and other AI.
Same goes for the 'smart home' management devices and home alarms and cameras like Ring, Eufy and Alexa. AI is used in the medical field to improve the accuracy of programs used for detecting health conditions. It's technology is used in smart TVs and movie, TV and music programs like Netflix or Spotify to monitor a user's habits and make recommendations based on their recent activity. Facebook uses AI to do the same, as does other social media; in short, it's all around us and making impacts on our lives.
I can live with all this, though I don't personally have most of those things mentioned above, but as an artist, the thing that pisses me off the most, is how AI is being used to create art and images, many of which find their way into the fertile bullshit-fed algorithms of Facebook. In past months, I've seen AI-generated images galore all over FB, Imgur and other pages, and while this would be fine if the posters stated it was AI, I rarely see this occurring. No attribution is given, as anyone can make use of the multitude of AI pages available, many of which are free to use like Craiyon, which is fairly basic. Midjourney however, is a professional-level program that makes stunning images, and this is where the problem lies.
AI has already begun to make it virtually impossible to tell if an image is real or not.
Some people are already using it to generate images like this one below, but are they doing so as a beneficial tool, for education and awareness? Or are they doing it to 'fool' people, make a mockery of the study and interest in cryptozoology?
How long before we start seeing 'fake' images here on AYR and other crypto pages? I mean, we all know there's a certain element of the public who will bullshit and lie, and make up fake evidence to gain attention or some kind of social kudos or monetary gain?(as in YouTube channels that are monetized per view)
AI as the name suggests, is intelligent in that it 'trains' and improves itself via machine learning. The day will come when I reckon we'll be bombarded by AI generated images and video of Yowies, Thylacines, Thylacoleo, extinct megafauna... the list is endless.
How as a repository of GENUINE reports and media, do we here at AYR propose to manage this?
We could look at two options where one is continue as we are, and have the Admins and Mods delete posts that are suspected AI fakes, OR
We make use of this AI to our own benefit, and create a section in the Forum for people who WANT to experiment with AI, so they can show off their work and the images they can generate. It would be deemed 'AI' work by default if it was uploaded to this 'AI Art' section.
We have some good artists here and this may be a way of preventing 'fake' images pervading our serious posts by literally giving those who want to play around with AI crypto images somewhere to show off their talent rather than try to pass it off as genuine. On the other hand, it may get to the stage where telling AI and real apart may be impossible. How do we manage the AI that is likely to eventually reach these very pages?
Thoughts? Other ideas?
Cheers,
Shazz
In the past six months, you will all no doubt have become aware of the technology commonly known as 'AI' or 'Artificial Intelligence'.
Already, AI and machine learning-enabled technologies are used in medicine, transportation, robotics, science, education, the military, surveillance, finance and its regulation, agriculture, entertainment, retail, customer service, and manufacturing, just to name a few.
AI isn't new, especially to the various military agencies across the world, but it's pervasive, and in use in many common everyday ways.
For example, if you're Googling something, you're making use of AI.
If you're using a smart phone with autocorrect, or Siri etc., you're making use of AI.
If you're watching movies, you're watching CGI and other AI.
Same goes for the 'smart home' management devices and home alarms and cameras like Ring, Eufy and Alexa. AI is used in the medical field to improve the accuracy of programs used for detecting health conditions. It's technology is used in smart TVs and movie, TV and music programs like Netflix or Spotify to monitor a user's habits and make recommendations based on their recent activity. Facebook uses AI to do the same, as does other social media; in short, it's all around us and making impacts on our lives.
I can live with all this, though I don't personally have most of those things mentioned above, but as an artist, the thing that pisses me off the most, is how AI is being used to create art and images, many of which find their way into the fertile bullshit-fed algorithms of Facebook. In past months, I've seen AI-generated images galore all over FB, Imgur and other pages, and while this would be fine if the posters stated it was AI, I rarely see this occurring. No attribution is given, as anyone can make use of the multitude of AI pages available, many of which are free to use like Craiyon, which is fairly basic. Midjourney however, is a professional-level program that makes stunning images, and this is where the problem lies.
AI has already begun to make it virtually impossible to tell if an image is real or not.
Some people are already using it to generate images like this one below, but are they doing so as a beneficial tool, for education and awareness? Or are they doing it to 'fool' people, make a mockery of the study and interest in cryptozoology?
How long before we start seeing 'fake' images here on AYR and other crypto pages? I mean, we all know there's a certain element of the public who will bullshit and lie, and make up fake evidence to gain attention or some kind of social kudos or monetary gain?(as in YouTube channels that are monetized per view)
AI as the name suggests, is intelligent in that it 'trains' and improves itself via machine learning. The day will come when I reckon we'll be bombarded by AI generated images and video of Yowies, Thylacines, Thylacoleo, extinct megafauna... the list is endless.
How as a repository of GENUINE reports and media, do we here at AYR propose to manage this?
We could look at two options where one is continue as we are, and have the Admins and Mods delete posts that are suspected AI fakes, OR
We make use of this AI to our own benefit, and create a section in the Forum for people who WANT to experiment with AI, so they can show off their work and the images they can generate. It would be deemed 'AI' work by default if it was uploaded to this 'AI Art' section.
We have some good artists here and this may be a way of preventing 'fake' images pervading our serious posts by literally giving those who want to play around with AI crypto images somewhere to show off their talent rather than try to pass it off as genuine. On the other hand, it may get to the stage where telling AI and real apart may be impossible. How do we manage the AI that is likely to eventually reach these very pages?
Thoughts? Other ideas?
Cheers,
Shazz
