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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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