Study: Generative AI and the Degradation of Human Expression
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- #Ethics of AI
- #Human Expression
- #Generative AI
- Generative AI (GenAI) emulates human expression but raises concerns about authenticity, deskilling, and ethical issues.
- GenAI's outputs are human-like but lack genuine human emotions, desires, or opinions, making them fundamentally different from true human expression.
- Practical challenges include increased effort in prompting, verifying, and editing AI outputs, as well as economic costs and deskilling of users.
- Ethical concerns involve lack of disclosure, effort, commitment, and authenticity when using GenAI for communication or creative tasks.
- Widespread use of GenAI leads to distrust in human expression, devaluation of human creativity, and discouragement of personal expression.
- GenAI cannot truly create art or communicate, as these require human intentionality and emotional depth.
- The erosion of human expression is inevitable as GenAI floods the market with synthetic outputs, making it harder to distinguish genuine human work.