Recommendations of the Editorial team
Recordings from Will Smith’s comeback tour “Based on a True Story” have taken care of attentive online viewers. In a compilation of the shows, a fan sign with the inscription “We others claimed that some spectators had additional fingers or strangely shaped hands.
AI or YouTube intervention?
While some Smith accused the amount of “reinforcing” the amount with artificial intelligence, there are also reports that YouTube has artificially changed videos without the knowledge of the creator. As “The Atlantic” reported, the YouTuber Rhett Shull believes that the “Ai-Upscaling” platform uses. So extrapolate the resolution and depth of detail of videos. “I think that will lead people to believe that I would use AI or my videos are fake,” he said. “This will inevitably undermine trust in my content.”
A spokesman for Smith and a spokesman for YouTube have not yet responded to inquiries from Rolling Stone.
The blurring border between reality and illusion
The boundaries between reality and deception are increasingly blurred because AI floods the Internet. From fake bands to artificially generated songs to fake photos of music legends. Among them is a fully invented picture by Mick Jagger, Elton John and Rod Stewart. Who supposedly sang Ozzy Osbourne’s commemoration.
The AI band The Velvet Sundown only made headlines last month after suddenly appearing on popular Spotify playlists. An alleged running rider even spokesman for the band online. And led, among other things, a telephone interview with Rolling Stone.
The band later published its own statement, in which it described itself as a “synthetic music project, led by human creativity, composed, set to music and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence”. It also said: “This is not a trick. It is a mirror. An ongoing artistic provocation that challenges the limits of authorship, identity and the future of music in the AI age.”
Artists raise the alarm
Many musicians have already criticized the use of AI. SZA warned of the harmful effects of AI programs that consume enormous resources. Among them Chatgpt and Elon Musk Chatbot Grok.