It’s Only a Matter of Time Until AI Takes Over

Artificial Intelligence is an industry that has been growing rapidly over the past few years. It can be a tricky topic, since some people think it is helpful, while others believe it is eventually going to take over the entire planet. ChatGPT especially has been used and abused by students to write their papers, and people use Google’s AI to find all sorts of answers to their questions. Though their statistics are inaccurate, those who are curious still choose this search engine because they believe it to be reliable. However, there are many who know the dangers of its presence in today’s modern world and how it can affect the job market.

For writers, it is a shame to see that artificial intelligence is creating fake articles and fooling people into believing these are legitimate and reliable, as if these works were created by real people, acknowledging real authors, and using nonexistent research. One example is Metacritic’s “Brian Merrygold”. This was an AI journalist with a fake background in journalism who gave a review of Capcom’s Resident Evil: Requiem. Even video game journalists, who are typically freelance writers, are being taken over by artificial intelligence. But we must ask: why?

According to our recent Rolling Stones Magazine article reading, bots are writing fabricated journal entries and articles that supply bogus evidence and are somehow getting away with it. These are affecting researchers, students, librarians, and many others because it leads to false information on (what is supposed to be) reliable academic search engines like Google Scholar. Does this mean that we can only rely on books from the library? What about other digital libraries such as JSTOR? Artificial intelligence on the internet has a cause and effect, and there are some who do not think about the negative consequences.

If researchers are using fake statistics and analyses to write papers without even realizing it, then who knows when this will end? There was a time when people were only concerned about websites like Wikipedia; however, we are now headed in a direction where we cannot tell what is fabricated and what is not.

I remember watching films that centered on robots, such as A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Blade Runner, but now I see how it can really affect society. These science fiction stories are turning into reality. How long will it be until we create an AI that goes beyond the internet?