Information is a valuable commodity. And thanks to technology, there are millions of terabytes on the internet. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT now manage this information on our behalf – collecting it, summarising it and then giving it back to us.
But “outsourcing” information management to AI – however convenient – has consequences. It can affect not only what we think, but potentially how we think. What happens in a world where artificial intelligence algorithms decide what information to perpetuate and what to retain?
Generative AI tools are built on models using hundreds of gigabytes of existing data. From this data, they learn how to autonomously generate text, images, audio and video content, and answer user questions by aggregating the “most likely” answer. How are generative AI tools changing the way we think – especially those that are personalised to us?