The dark side of AI art

Generative AI can create eye-catching images but also blur the line between what is true and what is not

According to a report in The Guardian, a researcher recently asked OpenAI’s ground-breaking chatbot, ChatGPT, about articles on a particular topic, and the AI simply made up some fake articles, including a fake Guardian article that even the Guardian staff, who had in no way written it, found plausible.

However, it would be a serious mistake to assume that ChatGPT-type chatbots can only disseminate fraudulent content. “Generative AI” and many of its incarnations pose a threat to society since they can develop new content like images, text, music, or even full videos using an enormously large amount of training data.