As AI keeps growing and becoming a bigger part of our lives, it's important to keep in mind some of the challenges and considerations that go with using AI-generated content.
Sometimes AI can see things that aren't really there. It's like when you think you see shapes in the clouds, but more intense. The AI might spot patterns or things that don't actually exist - items that people can't see at all. When this happens, the AI can spit out information that makes no sense or is just plain wrong. It's basically the AI's imagination running wild and making stuff up.
AI bias occurs when the data or methods used to create an AI system contain human prejudices or skewed information. This results in the AI producing unfair or inaccurate outputs.
For example, if an AI is trained on data that mostly represents one group of people, it might not work as well for others. This can lead to the AI making decisions or predictions that are unfairly biased against certain groups.
These biases in AI systems can have real-world consequences, potentially reinforcing existing inequalities or leading to discriminatory outcomes in areas like hiring, lending, or law enforcement.
The use of AI tools affects copyright in two ways.
Depending on how the AI tool was trained, it could have used material that was copyrighted (like textbooks, articles, and internet websites). Because of this, an AI tool may come up with a response that heavily plagiarizes a work, and you would have no way of knowing.
Secondly, who owns the copyright of work created by generative AI? For example, if you use an image generator to create artwork for a novel, is that your work or the work of the AI? You created the prompt and may have edited the image, but the artwork was created by a machine. In some cases, such as in the US, you cannot copyright material made by a machine.
Although it varies, many publishers have enacted rules to limit or even ban the use of AI in the creation of scholarly works submitted to their respective journals.
For example, Elsevier's policy on the use of AI states that AI cannot be credited as an author of a paper and any authors who use AI should disclose that information in the work.
In regard to AI generated images, many follow the same policy as Springer… which is it is not permitted. This is mostly due to the copyright issues as noted above.