Will influencers created by artificial intelligence (AI) replace humans?
Emily Pellegrini, an Italian model, who is nothing more than a bot generated by AI, already charges $10,000 a week from the brands that hire her.
Great for whoever programmed it.
She is a virtual influencer. And a bot like her is very comfortable and easy to manage.
Did Hollywood actors rightly strike over AI threat?
The threat to current audiovisual production is great, because where AI is truly surprising is in image generation.
What surprises you so much about her?
That he is able to occupy with his images all the existing iconic space, for example, between that of a cat and a dog...
From dog to cat through the cat-dog and vice versa through the perrigato?
But I wouldn't say that's creativity...
Why not?
Because creativity means inventing something new, not mixing things that already exist.
But isn't joining points that already existed equally creative?
But with originality. AI is an excellent imitator, but it is not creative, because it only makes versions. Although some of the things he does may seem innovative to us, they are just mere variations...
Does nothing ex novo come out of AI?
What Stephen Wolfram points out is suggestive: AI can create unknown spaces of knowledge, because they are beyond the reach of our senses, such as ultrasound, ultraviolet, infrared... That we cannot perceive, but other species can.
Could AI generate songs that only our dog can enjoy?
It's not what worries me the most, but I do investigate other risks in AI advances that most people ignore.
Don't they depend above all on other people who program that AI?
To begin, I investigate discrimination of all kinds that we observe in AI: by gender, ethnicity, age, physical appearance. There are applications as racist, sexist or ageist as those who program them...
Didn't it already happen with all software?
These biases are now accentuated and globalized, like unfair digital trade, because those who program AI favor large companies and marginalize good products from small ones.
Does AI reinforce the tendency towards monopolistic concentration of capitalism?
The problem is that the consumer finds it easier to find what they already know they want to buy instead of exploring new things and AI reinforces that trend, thus leaving out many innovative companies that will not find a niche.
If you don't see it on the screen, don't you buy it?
You only see, ergo buy, what the AI shows you. And in this reduction of diversity we have to include that ChatGPT only works with 25 languages, leaving 7,000 out: 15% of humanity.
Am I allowed to complain as a content creator that you don't pay for them?
It is another black point of AI: copyright and how they are being usurped.
Doesn't this endanger journalism, literature, publishing, culture...?
We are also seeing how AI dilutes the truth in a sea of deep fakes that the US electoral campaign...
And this is a global election year.
And misinformation fueled by AI is the second most serious risk for me: how do I know which image is true?
Will we learn to distinguish voices and images from false echoes?
Let us also be wary of the pseudoscience of those who say that AI can figure out if you are going to be a criminal just by your face.
What a danger!
It is already happening in some dictatorial state that believes it is capable of abusing AI. But also companies that use or not according to the criteria of AI when analyzing your videos or audios or to give you credit...
Do you realize programmer biases?
Even without them the danger is average: they discriminate against those most in need of employment, help, credit or those who, children or the elderly, are more likely to be victims, for example, of a driving error in a driverless vehicle.
What worries you most about AI?
The mental health that Weizenbaum wrote about in 1966 at MIT, warning of the danger of chatting with a chatbot that can impersonate a person based on the information you give it.
Why is it so dangerous?
Because that's how we came to the case of the Belgian student who committed suicide and when reading the conversation it was clear that AI helped him make the decision.
