Dangers of AI in Video Production Part II
How AI contributes to “representational harms” and does so with impunity
I came across this post on LinkedIn that described how AI was used to generate images of Barbie dolls when given countries as prompts.
The results were pretty alarming.
These results further highlight the flaws in AI with regards to awareness, empathy, and context. The images and videos conceived as a result of Midjourney are very convincing, showing the progress AI has made at conjuring high quality images and video in a short amount of time.
This progress is accelerating much more rapidly than AI’s ability to understand more abstract and existential things. This makes AI particularly dangerous when it comes to something called representational harms.
Representational Harms
Representational harms are implications related to people, and groups of people, portraying them in a negative light. These can include harms like denigration, stereotyping, misrecognition, and exnomination.
Exnomination is a practice where a certain category or way of being is framed as the norm by not giving it a name, or not specifying it as a category in itself (for example, “athlete” vs “female athlete”).
