Somewhere between what is real and what is generated, we’ve built something we don’t fully understand.
Generative AI didn’t arrive with thunder and headlines; it quietly slipped into our lives while we were all asleep. At first, it was simple — just an assistant that finished our sentences while we were typing, but now it writes them entirely. Generative AI doesn’t take a break, it doesn’t sleep, it doesn’t doubt anything. It learns, it evolves.
Today, I’m gonna be diving deeper into the question that creates anxiety —
“Is AI gonna be the end of us?”
Lots of people (including me), when AI first came out, despised it. Claiming it ruins lives, removes originality. And the biggest one of them all, AI is gonna steal our jobs. But what part of this is actually true? Is it actually gonna steal our jobs?
Let’s divide this post into 3 parts:
- Understanding Generative AI
- The Cons of Artificial Intelligence
- How Can AI Benefit Us?
Understanding Generative AI
- Before we dive deeper into topics like the cons of AI, we should understand what Generative AI really is. GenAI learns, a lot. It takes a bunch of information from the web — or big companies like OpenAI use previous chats as examples — and they learn.
- After they learn from these examples, they receive a prompt from a user and take that prompt to generate content, just like it states in its name. If you say, “Generate a poem,” it takes previous examples of people asking for poems and then it generates a poem. Or if you ask, “Generate a photo of a cat,” it checks previous images generated and uses that bias to generate a photo of a cat.
- If you really think about it, GenAI is just a smart copycat. It doesn’t copy any examples or text it sees directly. It recreates based on what it knows. It will never recreate the exact same thing that it has generated before. So every result is original but inspired by previous examples.
The Cons of Artificial Intelligence
- Just like everything, there’s a downside to AI. So I’m gonna explain the cons of AI as well.
- Deepfakes
With deepfakes, you can almost do anything. You can make a video of Donald Trump or Tom Cruise (these are just examples of popular people) saying or doing anything that you want. You could create a video of Tom Cruise eating a donut, or you could make a fake Mission Impossible scene. - AI Scams
With GenAI, there have also been many scams that have popped up.- Things like celebrities advertising products — when they don’t even know that they exist.
- Scams where they make an AI-generated video or a website, which tricks people into dropping all their money into some fake crypto or trading scam.
- Another common scam is where they send an AI-generated email from someone that looks like an executive, asking you to click a link to “get in touch” with them. But in truth, these are phishing scams.
- Deepfakes
How Can AI Help Us?
- Okay, after going through what AI is and the cons of it, how can it actually help us? I use AI as well, even though my original perspective on it wasn’t too good. I’ll give some examples of how I use it in my day-to-day life.
- First of all, I use it for grammar checking. If you’re reading this blog post, you probably think that my grammar is great, but in reality, it isn’t like that. I try to type as fast as I can, and generally, I end up making a mistake. For that, I have a ChatGPT prompt that I use, and it refines my grammar to make it look perfect.
- The next way I use it is to critique what I have done. For example, my last blog post. I used ChatGPT to critique it, and there were some crucial mistakes I had made. But because I used ChatGPT to critique it, I was able to fix all those mistakes.
Conclusion
- AI is great, and I would highly recommend it to anybody who wants to use it. But there are downsides, like deepfakes and AI scams. AI isn’t stealing any of our jobs right now; it’s only replacing each other’s. As of now, there’s nothing to worry about.
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