Probably the greatest commercial use of AI has been in art. Models like DALL-E or Midjourney create anything from fantasy landscapes of modern people lounging with dragons to a 1:1 recreation of the Mona Lisa. The greatest resistance to these models has come from artists who, while making their creations public, have not consented to the data from their creations being leveraged for AI training models. Often I see people with an AI model taking art specifically from a certain artist and then asking them to create a commission, rather than paying the artist themselves to make it.
…impersonating real people online with bot accounts, text generation, and image generation.
The Deepfakes situation alone has worsened to the point that it has reached the offices of White House officials. Taylor Swift’s recent situation, in which a user used AI to scrape images of her from the internet and created nude images of her, which she never took and without her consent, was a big step forward. Imagine, if this could happen on a realistic scale with a celebrity, what impact it could have on a social and political level, especially in terms of image, trust and exchange of information.
Even more so in early 2024, when a video was released showing a fake robocall from President Joe Biden urging New Hampshire voters not to vote.
