Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken a dangerous turn with the creation of AI-generated clones that can say things their human counterparts couldn’t dream of. Voice actor Greg Marston discovered an AI clone of himself uttering content he had never recorded, causing embarrassment for IBM, who had used his voice recordings to train their AI model. This raises concerns about the potential misuse of famous voices, like Amitabh Bachchan’s baritone, for nefarious purposes.
The threat of AI goes beyond celebrities’ voices. Artists are removing their work from platforms like X (formerly Twitter) due to concerns about how AI can destroy digital public spaces. Hollywood actors and writers are also on strike to prevent their work from being used to train AI models that could replace them. News outlets in the US have even added code to their websites to prevent AI chatbots from scraping their content. Authors are suing AI companies for using their books to train models, raising questions about copyright and intellectual property.
The authenticity and quality of content generated by chatbots like ChatGPT are also in question. NewsGuard found 475 pieces of AI-generated content on news websites, suggesting that users seeking information could be fed biased or misleading data. Even Google is part of the AI brigade with its Bard chatbot. The internet’s public commons, where volunteers share knowledge in good faith, like Wikipedia, are under threat from big tech companies using AI models to remove the human interface and empathy.
Regulation is crucial to address the dangers posed by AI. Transparency is needed in generative AI systems so that content owners can understand when their data is being used to train AI models. The European Union’s efforts in this regard could shape future AI regulation. Ethical standards are also necessary to prevent cases like Greg Marston’s from occurring in the future. Until global regulators establish rules that ensure transparency and ethics, the digital public spaces that provide some semblance of sanity may be at risk.
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