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Artificial Intelligent tools are progressing at such an accelerated pace that we mere mortals can barely keep up.

Now, experts are saying that 90% of online content could be generated by AI in the next three years.

In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, author Nina Shick claims that generative AI, such as Open AI’s DALL-E and ChatGPT, could completely change how digital content is developed by 2025.

She says the tools that are shocking and awing us at the beginning of 2023 are going to seem “quite quaint” by the end of the year, largely because the capabilities are just going to increase so powerfully:

“ChatGPT has really captured the public imagination in an extremely compelling way, but I think in a few months time, ChatGPT is just going to be seen as another tool powered by this new form of AI, known as generative AI,” she adds.

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The appeal is that generative AI can essentially “create new things that would have thus far been seen as unique to human intelligence or creativity”.

DALL-E (named after WALL-E and Salvador Dali), in case you weren’t aware, along with other text-to-image AI generators (like Lensa AI’s Stable Diffusion), are deep learning models developed to generate digital images from prompts.

That means you can quickly ask for an image of a blue banana skating into the sunset or a robot in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with melting clocks floating in the sky.

Your mind is probably already racing with all the possibilities, as well as the potential threats, legal issues, and confusion that this sort of technology can cause.

With AI spoofing everything we once thought was real, we’re being increasingly thrown into a world that we can’t totally trust. Besides that terrifying realisation, there are a few legal problems that are arising, too.

Generative AI has already been the subject of two major lawsuits today as photographers and artists accuse text-to-image generators of using their pictures without consent, notes PetaPixel:

A group of artists has filed a class-action lawsuit against AI image generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney — accusing them of being “a 21st-century collage tool that remixes the copyright works of millions of artists whose work was used as training data.”

Meanwhile, Getty Images has also launched legal action against the creators of Stable Diffusion claiming the AI image generator infringed its copyright.

We wrote about how Lensa AI, the app that uses Stable Diffusion to turn everyone into sexy avatars, has landed in major hot water.

ChatGPT has also been in the news lately, causing major concern for the future of education and ‘critical thinking’ as children are using the AI tool to write their essays and tests for them.

While this may pose a threat to the minds of our youth, some teachers and adults are embracing the possibilities and integrating these tools in ways to encourage critical thinking.

One teacher suggested allowing the children to write the essay with ChatGPT but then have them critically analyse where the AI went wrong, what it did well, and so on.

Viola, critical thinking in the age of chronic convenience.

It is possible, you just have to use your imagination. And if you can’t, get a generative AI tool to help you.

[sources:yahoo!finance&petapixel]