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Generative AI has the potential to streamline tasks that previously required human thinking to complete, but is this a good thing? Watch this video for a quick rundown on some concerns about generative AI tools, then dive a little deeper into some of the points raised with additional resources that follow.
The algorithms driving Generative AI apps are objective in that human emotion does not affect their performance, but the same is not true of the humans that wrote the code or vast data available on the internet that is often used to train the machines to perform.
The legal implications of Generative AI are still unfolding, in terms of both the AI-generated content and the human-generated content it had to learn to function.
A "deepfake" is an image, video, or audio recording that has been edited to digitally manipulate the way a persona sounds or looks. While deepfakes have FINALLY made true the dream of Nicolas Cage starring in every movie ever made, the technology can also be used to change what a president says to her nation.
Can students write academic papers merely by plugging a question into a generative AI application's prompt? Find out how generative AI may or may not be great for cruising through writing academic assignments.
Humans know that they can't trust everything they read on the internet, but unfortunately, nobody told ChatGPT about fibbers. Even more unfortunately that doesn't stop ChatGPT from repeating and expanding (or even seeming to make up whole cloth) the misinformation it "learned."
