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AI can be both good and bad. It helps with finding information and generating ideas, but can also be abused. It can be a solution for those in restricted access to information, but can also create deepfakes that spread false information. AI is not creative on its own, but can assist in generating ideas. AI can be used in content moderation, but human verification is still necessary. AI may make mistakes and needs to be monitored. AI has the potential to be advanced, but its impact on society depends on the intentions behind its use. Hello, on today's podcast, we're going to be talking about is AI good or bad? I'm Emily. I'm Ethan. So, do you think AI is good or bad? I think AI can be good or bad. For example, in school, people use Jack-G-B-T to look for new ideas when they're stuck on an assignment. When I use it, I use it as my last resort because when I can't find something on the internet, I go to AI, and they can usually find it pretty quick. It kind of gives me all that epic assignment bubble that I'm stuck in. It helps me find new sources and generate new ideas on my own, but people can actually abuse it. For example, students will go with it as their first resource, and I think this is bad because people will not think for themselves, and this kind of puts them in an epic assignment backstop where they won't think for themselves and just use AI as their main resource for their own ideas. What about you? Do you think AI is good or bad? I think it can be good, but it can also be very bad because, first of all, some people might be stuck in the systemic bubble. For example, people who are in North Korea, they don't have access, or they're restricted from different info and points of views. I feel like if they had access to ChatGPT, they would get a lot of information really fast, summarized. I think the use of AI is a solution for those that are stuck in an epistemic bubble, but at the same time, I think AI is bad because AI creates deepfakes, and deepfakes can be bad because they use people of power like Donald Trump or any type of president, and they may make the person say something absurd like, maybe the world is on fire, or there's going to be an asteroid hitting the Earth when there really isn't, and I feel like some people will actually believe that and go crazy, and this may cause the whole world to break down just because of a little fake video, but I don't know, what do you think? Yeah, especially with how good deepfakes are getting, people can definitely believe things that are not real, and it can ruin people's images, but at the same time, it can also be used for good, like, for example, have you heard of the AI songs that were made from AI? Yeah, I saw on TikTok how they have Juice WRLD and Drake just singing Christmas carols or something, and that's really funny, I feel like a lot of people enjoy that. Yeah, but speaking of them creating songs, do you think AI can be creative? Me personally, after reading Brainard's The Curious Case of Uncurious Creations, I feel like yes, in the future, but only in the future, not right now, because AI, it's not really creating stuff on its own, it's taking information that's already created and responding to our questions, and because it's responding to our questions and not figuring stuff on its own, AI itself is not curious, and therefore not creative, but AI can still create, you know? Yeah, AI is at a state right now, you need someone to input their own ideas for AI to create something, so it can't really create on its own, but I think AI can actually help people become creative, because when someone is stuck, people can go to AI to create something, so they can generate their own ideas, so they can become creative themselves. Yeah, I agree, like, I feel like AI is a solution to, like, those writer's block or, like, just blocks where an artist can't get, like, any new ideas or, like, new points of views, and I feel like AI really helps with that, and so therefore, like, AI can definitely help advance our, like, creativity. Yeah, exactly. Going back to deepfakes and AI-generated songs, who do you think gets credit when someone uses AI to create something? Like, the, like, the person using the AI is using somebody else's voice? Yeah. I think that the person creating it or, like, using the AI should get credit, and I feel like as well as the person's voice, because unless it's, like, copyrighted, unless someone, like, an artist copyrights their voice, I feel like he should receive credit, too, and I feel like he should have the right to sue the person using AI to create a song, but at the same time, I feel like the person creating or, like, using AI to create a song should get credit, because he's creating the lyrics and, like, maybe how the beat goes, and he's just using AI to piece it together, so I feel like AI shouldn't really get credit since it's, like, a tool that people use, like, PowerPoint or, like, Word. You're not going to give PowerPoint really credit for doing something that you did, you know? Yeah, because the person thought of it themselves. They brought up the idea of using that person's voice to make a song and used AI as a tool to make that song, so I think they would get sued, though, if they use another person's voice because that's, like, not their own brand or using someone else's brand voice to create a song, which can, like, be used to generate revenue, so if they generate revenue with someone else's voice, I think they would definitely get sued. Yeah. Oh, what's your thought on, like, say if Drake were to use AI and, like, create audio with his lyrics, do you think, like, he has a right to do that? Like, he's just giving the hard work of him, like, actually singing or, like, rapping. I think he could do that, but I don't think the fans would agree with him because that's not, like, really him singing or, like, rapping, so it's, like, kind of cheaping out on the fans because fans want, like, authentic Drake and, like, what he actually created and not some AI-generated songs. But the fans wouldn't know because the effects are pretty good. He can be like, oh, yeah, I sang this, and fans wouldn't really know. Yeah, if the fans don't know, then they can't really do anything about it, but it's just wrong for artists to do that because it's not really them. So do you think that humans have, like, algorithms, like, built into them? Or, like, I guess morals. Is morals almost the same as algorithms? Because I feel like if we're going back to, like, human morals or, like, algorithms, I feel like you can loop it back to, like, creativity and, like, if AI is creative or not. Yeah, I think what differentiates humans from being creative and AI not being creative is that humans have a thought process behind every choice they make when they're creating something, but AI, they just randomly go throughout their resources and just put something together to make it look like they create something on their own, even though it's not something that is thought of because AI can't really think for themselves. So AI does not have a consciousness? No, no. So if AI is, like, if AI doesn't have a consciousness, and it's basically a tool, right? Yep. So can AI, do you think, can be used in, like, content moderation? Yeah, I think AI should definitely be integrated into content moderation, especially after seeing all the points that Ma Dong made in his article about the dark reality of content moderation, and all the stress that people have gone through, moderating all the things they've seen, and how it messes with their mind. AI should definitely be integrated to relieve the stress of those people. Yeah, I agree. Because, like, me personally, I have a finseload that me and my friends use. And sometimes we type a caption, and the caption is pretty funny, but I don't think it's appropriate. And Instagram would, right before I click post, Instagram would pop up this, like, little box and be like, oh, are you sure you want to post this? Like, it might get taken down if someone reports it. Something along the lines of that. And I think AI is a good, like, filter, but I definitely think that, like, humans should still, like, review certain things, like, after content has filtered through AI. Yeah, AI is still making a lot of mistakes right now. So they're not able to, like, filter everything out, or they may have taken down the wrong stuff. So there still needs to be some human verification throughout the content moderation process. Do you think in the future, like, AI can, like, stand alone in content moderation? If it becomes advanced enough and takes that next step, I think it can. But I think it's still, like, risky because AI can always make a mistake. Yeah, I feel like, like, what if AI, like, makes a mistake and, like, it flags something that's, like, completely appropriate? Yeah, that's why there needs to be, like, human verification. But, like, less human verification is better. So there's less stress on those humans. So if AI is, like, moderating, like, all that content and, like, filtering through stuff, do you think they'll be able to detect their own defects? I think there are actually tools out there right now that can do that. But I don't know how accurate it is. So I don't know how advanced AI can get to where it can detect its own defects. So I don't think you can always trust AI to do that. You've got to, like, keep with a grain of salt how AI can always make a mistake. Yeah, because I feel like AI has the potential to be a lot more advanced than it is now. And, like, don't get me wrong, AI is advanced. But, like, it's cool to see how, like, far AI has become and what it can be in the future, you know? Yeah, it still definitely has a lot of room to grow. But, like, with all these ways that AI are used today, do you think AI is generally good or bad for society? I feel like under the right hand and with the right intentions, you know, like, AI can be really, really good and really beneficial and, like, help humans, like, grow mentally, you know? Yeah, I feel like with the right intentions, AI is really good for society. But there's also a lot of harmful things that AI can do with the bad intentions people have. Yeah, it's kind of scary how, like, in some movies, like, even, like, AI, like, or, like, a robot is, like, running the world. Like, that's pretty scary to me. Yeah, but I feel like we don't have to worry about that right now. I think it'll take some time for AI to be able to do that. That's it for our podcast. Thank you for listening.