MULTICULTURAL NEWS AUSTRALIA
OUR TAKE AI or the real deal! Brisbane, February 1, 2024
Students, teaachers, employees, or employers the world over are and have been in this dilemma whether one should use the AI or continue without it and stick to the real deal. Technological advancement brings in many challenges and one of it currently is the use of AI. On one hand it is a boon when it comes to using AI for mechanics, and electronic development. But when it comes to human interactions and manipulations it could be a danger. In the Literature sector many librarians are worried their job will become obsolete. As AI could take over the sorting, stacking, labeling, even writing books and articles. In the cultural journey Australia has already succunbed to AI . The AI has reached the Kitchens churning out dishes at the spur of the moment. AI women have been appointed to work and work hard. AI today has infiltrated in various sectors including the arts, media and the culinary art. Image manipulations with AI is at finger tips of the common man. The manipulations of images with A1 and one without AI sometimes is very difficult to recognise. The term ‘digital forgery’ means any intimate visual depiction of an identifiable individual created through the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or any other computer-generated or technological means, including by adapting, modifying, manipulating, or altering an authentic visual depiction, to appear to a reasonable person to be indistinguishable from an authentic visual depiction of the individual. These days Adobe gives a vast range of generative AI tools which allows one to manipulate the bodies of ordinary people to look like celebrities. A recent case in Melbourne with Ms. Georgia Purcell, Victorian Animal Justice Party MP, when called on TV by Nine News showed an image of her where her white dress was swapped with a top exposing her midriff. This obviously upset her and she posted on X saying that in the inage her boobs were enlarged and her dress was swapped. The Nine News in their defense said www.mccq.org.au
that the Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Expand tool has made her image accidently bigger. An automated action by the software. This tool allows the users to make the image bigger or fit in where the software makes assumptions of the proportions and generates an image that best fits and filled out with the new materials. If enough information is not fed into the system for the software to create the image it looks for the stock images to generate the current image. Most of the stock images are based on biases and images of commonly viewed materials. Protection in such cases has thus become the top priority. Ms Purcell does not buy the argument of Nine blaming it on adobe photoshop, however is ready to move on. Adobe on the other hand says that the edits to the images in question “should have required human intervention and approval” permissions often are generated by humans. This is how such images have often gone undebated and unaccounted for. In the past the AI-generated explicit images of Taylor Swift also created massive debate among the policy makers in US. The US lawmakers now have proposed a bill that would let victims sue over digitally faked sexual images. But how much would that help?
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FEB 2024 - Vol 1, Issue 1
Meta purged over 26mn bad pieces of content on FB, Insta in India in Dec 2023 New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANSlife)
Meta said that it took down over 19.8 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 6.2 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in December 2023. Between December 1-31, Facebook received 44,332 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and said that it provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 33,072 cases. These include pre-established channels to report content for specific violations, self-remediation flows where they can download their data, avenues to address account hacked issues, etc, Meta said in its monthly report in compliance with the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media
Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. “Of the other 11,260 reports where specialised review was needed, we reviewed content as per our policies, and took action on 6,578 reports in total. The remaining 4,682 reports were reviewed but may not have been actioned,” Meta added. On Instagram, the company received 19,750 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism. “Of these, we provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 9,555 cases,” it said. Of the other 10,195 reports where specialised review was needed, Meta reviewed content and took action on 6,028 reports in total. The remaining 4,167 reports were reviewed but may not have
been actioned. Under the new IT Rules 2021, big digital and social media platforms, with more than 5 million users, have to publish monthly compliance reports. “We measure the number of pieces of content (such as posts, photos, videos or comments) we take action on for going against our standards. Taking action could include removing a piece of content from Facebook or Instagram or covering photos or videos that may be disturbing to some audiences with a warning,” said Meta. In the month of November, Meta took down over 18.3 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 4.7 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram.
The digital manipulations of the software and the AI generative tools have gone far and beyond human’s ability to manipulate the images. The AI tools for face recognition now is able to make the difference between a dark skin and a light skin. When used at the policing levels at airports or in criminal cases, it is obvious that biases will occur. Racialisation may be facilitated.
AI generated Idol of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya
The federal Government in Australia thus has introduced a plan to respond to this rapid rise of AI technology. In the near future hard rules may be imposed on these generative tools which have the potential for danger, discrimination and biases.
The Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi involved himself and mandated every citizen of India in the creation of this temple following the mission “Ram to Rashtra”. Eminent Architects were deployed in this mission including artists and artisans from all over the nation. Resources, materials were well thought out and brought in from various parts of India.The whole country was mobilised towards this mission.
No matter what, the time has come to take stern actions on the use of such tools and protection to vicitms of such AI manipulations. Article written by Amrita Deshpande (Associate Editor. MCCQ and New Media Artist)
Feb 1, 2024 (From MCCQ Newsdesk) The Ram Temple in Ayodhya is a master piece Architectural spectacular along with the artistic sculptural creative extravaganz that transforms one into the era of the gods and goddssses.
The temple also marked the technological advancement of the country. One spetacle that dazzled all was the idol of Ram after the concercation ceremony was smiling at devotees, turning his eyes watching everyone and smiling. This AI generated image of Ram Lalla sent a fervor among the masses making Ram Lalla come back to life actually smiling at the devotees. . This not only proved the ability of Indian computer science engineers displaying their talents making the idol to virtually come alive but also made the whole of India spiritually rise above the domestic differences and embrace the moment as though it was divine. The Artificial Intelligence definitely converted India into a global spiritual power house marked by the technological advancement and artistic excellence.
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