Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science producing software that aims to ultimately replace all manual labor. AI is not a new concept - it has been of interest as early as the 1950s. Since the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, large language model (LLM) chatbots have been a main focus of the industry, with billions of dollars in funding allocated to producing more "intelligent" LLMs. Also a significant focus are text-to-image models, which "draw" an image using written instructions, and text-to-video models, which extend the text-to-image concept across several smooth video frames.

Generative artificial intelligence models are trained through vast amounts of existing human-generated content. Using the example of an LLM, by learning about common trends in sentence structure, the model is able to form complete sentences and show artificial "knowledge" of a topic. The artificial nature may cause hallucination through confidently-written, but mostly or entirely incorrect, output.

The current well-funded, lucrative industry of artificial intelligence tools has resulted in rampant unethical use of content. Startups intending to produce AI services have been scraping the internet for content to train future models at a concerning pace, with no regard for copyright law, as members of the field are concerned that they are approaching the limit of publicly-available content to train from.