Limitations and Challenges of AI Visual, Video, and Music Tools
- AI art often lacks diversity in representation and may present biases in how they depict people and cultures.
- AI can be used for data processing and pattern recognition, but it is not capable of developing truly new ideas in the way that humans can.
- AI cannot assess more subjective and abstract concepts. For example, everyone’s definition of beautiful varies. AI can create something that draws upon its training of what is beautiful but may not be able to develop something entirely novel.
- AI struggles with specific details, such as representing a specific number of items in an image or putting objects in a specific spatial order.
- AI image generators often create images with subtle but disturbing errors, resulting in an uncanny valley effect. The most famous is AI’s inability to render human hands.
- Although most things created by AI do not fall under copyright protection, things developed with a human partner may. Additionally, there is great concern about how challenging it is to distinguish between works that are developed by AI or by humans, which makes it easy for humans to pass AI work off as their own. There is additional concern about whether these AI tools will put humans out of work.