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sammie deyoe

Although Ai is seemingly taking over the world, many are fighting back "why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write" Sabine Zetteler says as she expresses her utter hate for the new invention. The lack of love and emotion in writing is something people have been predicting for years, leading to an end of the world phenomenon. Since the launching of Chat GBT in 2022 it has become one of the most expensive government projects requiring extensive energy to launch let alone keep functioning. Making it used nearly 10 times as much as google. "I found out that the environmental impact was awful with all the energy consumption required to run the data centres. I don't think that people are aware of that." says Florence Achery. Not only that but people are concerned with the effect it has on humans lack of problem solving skills, wondering if Ai could lead to "the dumbing down of society itself."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzdjqxo

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Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.

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Center for News, Technology & Innovation

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Artificial Intelligence in Journalism - Center for News, Technology & Innovation

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How do we enable the benefits and manage the harms of artificial intelligence in journalism?

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Jocelyn Meers

Virginia Tech explored the "Good, Bad, and Ugly" of AI. While there are positives, such as breaking down language barriers and further helping the rehabilitation of injured people, it is also dangerous to depend on AI or to replace real people with artificial sources in creativity and day-to-day interactions. Before we continue to use AI, we must first make sure our current use is under control.

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There is no denying that Artificial Intelligence has changed our lives. However, some might argue if it’s for the better.

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charlie

this article was talking about how chatgpt had to recall a "bot" they had made because people did not like its "personality" this just goes to show that we need to be careful with ai and how much we use it. there are people out there talking about its personality, meaning they have spent way way to much time on it.

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OpenAI rolled back a ChatGPT update that made the bot excessively flattering

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The change was announced after users noticed answers from the latest version of GPT-4o that seemed unusually sycophantic.

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Studio Ghibli creator Hayao Miyazaki's art style being replicated by A.I by people groups across the world. GPT-4o introduced a part of their various image generation and overlay tools in one of their latest update. Witht the soon "Ghibli style" being accessable to through these tools. Soon after, various people and governments took to GPT-4o to use the "Ghibli style," from there various posts and images where put out on their social media accounts. Miyazaki quoted in 2016 that such tools are, "an insult to life itself." With Miyazaki only using his recognizable hand drawn animation and style in all of his projects. OpenAI argued that "copying the style of a movie studio, rather than of a living artist, is allowed." Which is higly debateable wether or not Miyazaki takes legal action against OpenAI for plagarism on his art style. I personally believe AI only replicates and takes art styles opposed to it creating its own styles or any original art forms. To create various AI bots it's trained on art from artists WITHOUT PERMISSION to further the replication process. AI can't think for itself wether it just almagimates art that its fed to help replicate said prompts that are asked to create it. Miazaki's "insult to life itself" is not too far off the mark, as AI takes and cannot give what it doesn't know. For AI to replicate the "Ghibli style," it was most likely fed thousands of stolen frames from various Ghibli films. Such as "Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Tottoro," and my personal favorite, "Porco Rosso." The spread of the AI "Ghibli Style" also inspites animation companies to pick up the use of AI and ditch actual animators as a result. This nullifies thousands of hours worth of degrees in animation and stomps out indipendent artist as well. Any sort of AI generated art I also believe to be an"Insult to life itself" as well.

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If asked to come up with a quintessentially "human" work of art, one could do worse than to name a film by Studio Ghibli. The Japanese animation studio, founded by the legendary eighty-four-year-old director Hayao Miyazaki, is known for its hand-drawn imagery, lushly organic color palettes, epic narratives, and evocation of both the emotional ambiguities of childhood and the twisting path to becoming an adult. We American millennials were blessed to have the films translated and distributed in English just as we were growing up, and so movies including "My Neighbor Totoro," "Princess Mononoke," and "Spirited Away" are nigh-universally recognizable touchstones of our youth. Any Ghibli imagery is primed to make us feel a combination of pleasurable nostalgia and mournful shivers, evoking the doomed forest creatures, greedy bathhouse ghosts, and missed connections featured in Miyazaki's cinematic story lines. Unfortunately, that sense of poignancy quickly erodes when you are bombarded with thousands of Ghibli-esque copycat images, as we all were online last week, thanks to OpenAI's latest version of its ChatGPT tool.

GPT-4o, as this newest version is called, can generate images with much higher fidelity than past iterations could, and can do so right within the program's chat window. (The tool is currently only available to paid accounts.) Last year, on OpenAI's image generator DALL-E 3, users were likely to produce renderings depicting wonky hands and gibberish text; trying to repeat the same images produced unreliable results. The new model, by contrast, can generate clear text, maintain a consistent protagonist over multiple images, and faithfully replicate artistic styles ranging from hand drawing to photorealism. During a release demonstration on March 25th, OpenAI staff, including the C.E.O., Sam Altman, prompted the tool to turn a group selfie into "an anime frame," which resulted in a cartoonish scene, drawn in precise lines, with characteristic cel shading and detailed fig-leaf plants in the background. (One figure did have four fingers on a hand, but who's counting.) After seeing the demo, an engineer named Grant Slatton posted a family photo to X that he had "converted to studio ghibli anime." It showed him and his wife with their pet corgi on the beach, sporting the kind of shining pupils, voluminous hair, and softly creasing clothing familiar from Miyazaki's films. The effect was uncannily convincing; any flaws-pixelated chin scruff, say-revealed themselves only on close examination. Slatton's post now has nearly fifty million views and has inspired a rash of other Ghiblified scenes, including ones very unbefitting of the Miyazaki cinematic universe-a Ghibli Donald Trump raising his fist defiantly in the aftermath of an assassination attempt; a Ghibli airplane hitting the Twin Towers. The bizarre nadir of the trend may have been reached, on Thursday, when the official White House X account posted a Ghibli-filtered photo of a sobbing alleged drug dealer from the Dominican Republic getting arrested. (Why are we surprised? This is the same Administration that previously posted an A.S.M.R. video of people being deported.)

The use of Ghibli-esque anime in the OpenAI demo was intentional; "we put a lot of thought into the initial examples we show when we introduce new technology," Altman later posted on X. He has since boasted about his company's servers "melting" from the demand placed on it by GPT-4o. The success of the Ghibli meme marks a new chapter in the evolution of A.I. mimicry. Previous A.I. tools have produced memes celebrated for their otherworldly glitchiness-a 2023 Midjourney image of the Pope wearing a swagged-out puffer jacket, or an A.I.-generated version of Jay-Z's voice singing a retro rap track. In those cases, the technology's failure to produce flawless verisimilitude was part of the charm. With the Ghibli images, one can almost enjoy the winsome color palettes and line work for their own sake, forgetting that they are the ersatz creations of a machine.

That potency has as much to do with GPT-4o's capabilities as with the indelible archetypes that Miyazaki created. One popular post on X last week crowed, "Art just became accessible," over a photo of six male friends, the frame transmuted, in turn, into three different visual styles. But it is not art that is becoming accessible per se; it is a Xerox of art, a more extreme version of, say, a photograph of a painting. One bitter irony of the faux-Ghibli meme is that Miyazaki is an avowed hater of A.I. technology. In an infamous clip, from 2016, he described an automated animation tool as "an insult to life itself." That Miyazaki's lifework is now grist for the generative-A.I. mill might be not only an insult but a copyright infringement. OpenAI argues that copying the style of a movie studio, rather than of a living artist, is allowed. (I imagine Disney would not support this argument.) Yet other artists in the United States are already suing OpenAI, and other A.I. companies, for training its tools on their artwork and infringing on their styles; those lawsuits are still making their way through the court system, and their outcomes will determine much of how A.I.-generated images are treated going forward. (In 2023, one case set a precedent that A.I.-generated art cannot, itself, be copyrighted.)

Artists have confronted reproduction plenty of times before, of course. Painting survived the advent of printmaking, then the advent of photography. Older media has survived because some kernels of insight and expression cannot be replicated away. As Walter Benjamin wrote in his 1933 essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproduction," "The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity." The photograph of the cathedral has no meaning without the cathedral itself; the replication of Studio Ghibli's style has no meaning without the collective feeling we have for the Miyazaki aesthetic, inspired by its films. In our present moment, I worry much less for artists, who are driven to create things, than for audiences, who may be content to settle for so many pale imitations. Miyazaki's most recent film with Studio Ghibli, " The Boy and the Heron," is a sui-generis blend of autobiography, Japanese history, animism, and surrealism that probes the artist's very urge to create something that will outlast him. The film's energetic abstraction-accelerating into the deepest, ineffable parts of our souls-is one way art can respond to the challenge of technology. Even as Miyazaki's style proves memetic in this moment, his work might foretell the future of aesthetics, too. ♦

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Kyle Chayka writes about A.I.-generated images based on the aesthetic of Studio Ghibli, from Hayao Miyakazi, that were created by OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o.

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Isabella Grosskopf

I'm confident in verifying that this news source is genuine because it comes from a reputable university's website; the website is specific to Columbia's School of Journalism, which makes this source even more reliable and authoritative. This website discusses some reasons for adopting AI in journalism but also raises the question of what downfalls the industry may face. I agree that introducing AI into news writing was inevitable, and CAN benefit the journalism industry by keeping it up to date with the rest of the world's use of AI. However, it can be dangerous if readers blindly trust anything they read, which applies to both AI and man-made writing. For our society to flourish, we must stay informed; AI isn't a monster, but we must remain critical of everything we read and hold AI/AI companies accountable for factual information.

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Tow Report: “Artificial Intelligence in the News” and How AI Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena | Columbia Journalism School

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Challenging the poor understanding of the effects of AI on the news industry and our information environment.

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https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/nations-meet-un-killer-robot-talks-regulation-lags-2025-05-12/

Paige

Following Reuters News of “unmatched global news source” of nations meeting at UN to push for a regulation of AI weapons (Nations meeting at UN for ‘killer robot’ talks as regulation lags Reporting By Olivia Le Poidevin and Edited by Joe Bavier). The UN is trying to regulate AI weapons by 2026 but there are accountability issues with AI weapons. States are not agreeing with the use of AI weapons due to ethical and human right concerns. Though the autonomous weapons being a risk the rules are not set and they are running out of time. Alexander Kmentt, head of arms control at Austria’s foreign ministry says “Time is really running out to put in some guardrails so that that the nightmare scenario us that spoke of the most noted experts are warning of don’t come to pass.” I believe that regulations set on AI weapons should not be a rushed decision due to the risks it could bring. Stop killer robots is a movement to push for non AI weapons because technology companies cant be 100% trusted when putting another’s life at stake.

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Some see AI as the path to the future, while others are skeptical as it is a slippery slope for using technology, such as AI, in legal cases.

The most recent account, according to BBC and NCB news, of this would be when Chris Pelkey "came back" to his killer's sentencing to deliver a victim's statement himself. His family used voice recording, videos, and pictures of Pelkey to create an AI video of Pelkey revealing that he forgave his killer. The judge saw the compassion that Pelkey and his family had and lowered the killer's sentence to 10.5 years.

The judge later mentioned that he wasn't surprised that AI was used in this sentencing because Arizona courts already have started using AI in other ways. For example, when the state's supreme court issues a ruling, it has an AI system that makes those rulings readable for people.

Paul Grimm, a retired federal judge, told BBC, "We'll be leaning [AI] on a case-by-case basis, but the technology is irresistible."

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Ruby

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddiit-researchers-ai-bots-rcna203597

Following NBC news article on “Researchers secretly infiltrated a popular Reddit forum with AI bots, causing outrage”, Researchers from a university deployed AI bots posing as real people. One of the AI bots left a comment arguing against the opinion that AI should never interact with humans on social media. These researchers said how the AI bots personalized their responses by using a separate model to collect information about users: such as their ages, genders, ethnicities, locations and political orientations. These individuals were unaware and had no prior knowledge or consent to this. The AI bots are now since banned, but left more than 1,000 comments throughout subreddit.

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Researchers secretly infiltrated a popular Reddit forum with AI bots, causing outrage

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Reddit is considering legal action after a group of researchers had AI bots pose as real people without users’ knowledge. The researchers say they will no longer publish their study.

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Following Time Magazine's investigation of AI-generated fake news websites ("How the Benefits and Harms of AI Use grew in 2024" by Andrew Chow), users have a duty to verify sources and combat misinformation in the public realm. We should actively fact-check AI content and maintain human oversight, especially when sharing information that could influence others. In addition, as WTOP in Loudon County VA has reported, the concern regarding authentic student generated work highlights the concern in the educational realm as students attempt to shortcut learning.

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Loudoun Co. public schools look to control use of AI in classrooms - WTOP News

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The school board in Loudoun County, Virginia, will review a policy that looks to govern how students and teachers use artificial intelligence.