What happens when AI generated media becomes ubiquitous in our lives? How does this relate to what we’ve experienced before, and how does it change us? This is the first part of a two part series I’m writing analyzing how people and communities are affected by the expansion of AI generated content. I’ve already talked at some length about the environmental , economic , and labor issues involved, as well as discrimination and social bias .

What does image generative AI really tell us about our world? I recently had the opportunity to provide analysis on an interesting project , and I had more to say than could be included in that single piece, so today I’m going to discuss some more of my thoughts about it. The approach the researchers took with this project involved providing a series of prompts to different generative AI image generation tools: Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, YandexART, and ERNIE-ViLG (by Baidu).