ChatGPT and LensAI – The AI Misstep

The past few weeks have proven to be morally questionable in the realm of artificial intelligence, with some platforms red-coded by Google and plagiarism allegations against others.?

?Developed by OpenAI, Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, or ChatGPT is a chatbot [informally known as OpenAI GPT-3.5’s more advanced sister, that goes beyond simply predicting what word comes next as a user is typing, but instead predicting the future of human imagination as a whole] that can have intelligent automated conversations, write music, essays and content, and even code.??

With over a million subscribers within its first week of a test launch, the tool has generated an instant understanding that independent AI is no longer just a concept. In its blog post about the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI said its "dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests."?

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, has voiced concerns over OpenAI’s newest release, leading the search engine giant to issue a code-red as the company’s search engine has been met with the potential to be replaced, henceforth hurting Google’s overall ad revenue business.??

The chatbot has a multitude of solutions for any viable concern:?

?Generating complex and specific codes:?

Writing poetry:?

And even providing assistance to cooking up harmful substances:?

However, experts were quick to catch on to the crucial ethical existence of such a powerful tool. Security company Check Point Research says this same ability for using it to generate code to aid in workplace productivity could also give hackers a ways to more easily design, write and execute malicious code.??

The team created a series of phishing emails and generated harmful code and infection chains that could conveniently render large corporations dysfunctional.?

The moral usage of ChatGPT comes only a few days after art generated by artificial intelligence came under fire for the alleged plagiarism of small artists across the globe.?

If you’ve partaken in LensAI’s avatar-generating feature [released this November] then you’ve probably heard of the unconsented alteration of existing artists’ work through specific filters to create a new “unique concept”.??

Karla Ortiz, a San Francisco-based artist who did the character concept art for Marvel’s Doctor Strange, worked on the newest Black Panther movie and has contributed to other giants in the media like HBO and Universal Studios, claims that the application has regenerated her work in a similar fashion to multiple other pieces for individual users, thus challenging the integrity of where the app is availing its information from in the first place.?

LensAI creator Prisma Labs insists that the images can’t be called replications of other artists’ work.?

“The AI learns to recognize the connections between the images and their descriptions, not the artworks,” the company claims. “Hence the outputs can’t be described as exact replicas of any particular artwork."

Clearly, not everyone agrees.?

An AI Ethics Debate??

Artists, lawyers and creators have taken the unfairness of the application to authoritative configurations, and the fight for artists’ protection continues forward, but we are left with the impending montage of questions, summing up into Is all AI truly Artificial Intelligence??