Google’s research focuses on real harm that generative AI is currently causing and could get worse in the future. Namely, that generative AI makes it very easy for anyone to flood the internet with generated text, audio, images, and videos.
AI-generated images and videos will become so flawless that they will no longer be easily distinguishable. We cannot build up media competence in the general public as quickly as is required.
This is just few (one type of AI used) examples of how easy it was to scam people. We aren’t even having the negative impact talk on the climate and energy problems.
There is positive uses but companies and politicians are not highlighting them. They also are failing to regulate the uses for the public.
What happens when governments uses AI media to start a civil war? Or someone makes a convincing video of an international attack? We maybe fucked.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html
