Everyone is talking about how one of our biggest news channels this week used generative AI to Photoshop one of our politicians photos.
Of course she was a young woman and she called it out in X even saying that she knew the photo was clearly wrong because she also has a stomach tattoo that wasn’t on the altered photo.
The news channel 9 offered a lame apology saying it was the AI but it just goes to show that there’s no human oversight to this process and the photo was allowed, endorsed and accepted to be publicised across Australia.
It was fake and shared by our news channel.
It makes you wonder how our news media are using these generative tools that are often with the technologies they’re using already without human oversight.
Just how much are they aware of the danger, the fake news, the misinformation they could be generating here?
They should and must remain objective, truthful and clarify the sources of all news and images but this shows they aren’t.
Don’t get me started on this also being done on a young woman. I doubt they would have done the same with a male politician.
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I am not convinced about AI.
Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon with it but for me I’m sceptical because simply, it’s not the technology – it’s the HUMANS ignorant use of their actions of it and not querying why or how they’re using it, for what gains and how they can put out fake stuff that then alters how people think.
If you’re a fan of AI, I believe that you’re underestimating the stupidity of humans.
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