Every year, improvements in technology lead to more advanced AI tools, making it harder to tell the difference between human-made content and AI-generated content. As a result, learning how to detect AI-generated content has become an important part of life. Now people use it in social media, homework, essays and basic life tasks. While these tools can be useful and make life easier, they can also make it hard to understand what is real and what is not.
Suria Ali-Ahmed, an English teacher in Troy High School, gives her opinion about the effects on younger generations: “It could be a really cool tool to help with learning information and it can create things and it could be used as a tool, but it can also be harmful in that students can depend too much on it. It can prevent them from developing on their own or being creative on their own.”
Ali-Ahmed states, “It could be a public service that could be offered to people.”
When asked about the effects of AI in the future, Ali-Ahmed answers: “Things are gonna have to change in terms of how [people] assess writing. It definitely is a game changer but it could be helpful if used in the right way.”
Heather Kelly, an art teacher in Troy High School, comments, “I do not know that much about it, but what I do know is that AI is not going anywhere. It is going to be a tool, just like when computer technology came into being when I was young. People were afraid of it, thinking it was going to take jobs away, it was going to ruin the authenticity of our work, and disrupt [people], which it did, but I feel like it has assimilated. AI is going to do the same thing. It is just another tool.”
Kelly highlights that AI is going to be not an endgame, but a way to enhance people’s creativity: “Once [people] type in a prompt, and [they will] have to be creative in the way [they] type in the prompt. And then the response it will give will only help enhance [people’s] creativity.”
Her opinion about the future effects of AI are clear: “It will change all industries. It could expand upon what [society is] already doing, and it could also drastically change the way [people] create, but it doesn’t mean [AI is] something to be afraid of.”
According to Spotting AI: Knowing How to Recognise Real vs AI Images by Britannica Education, to spot AI, people could focus on unusual or inconsistent details, texture and pattern repetition, lighting and shadows, background anomalies, facial features, contextual errors, text and labels, digital artifacts, emotional Inconsistency.
Practical tools for image vetting are: metadata analysis, look up an image’s metadata if it’s available. This can reveal insights like date, location, camera settings, and copyright details. If you’re accessing an image on a computer, right-click the image and select “Properties” to view metadata. If people are on their phone, they can use apps like Google Photos or access image details through menu options. Reverse Image Search, A reverse image search is a great starting point when analysing images. PBS Learning Media’s video guide shows people how to effectively use this technique.
As AI becomes more common in daily life, the line between human and AI is getting harder to identify. Whether people can tell the difference or not, AI will become a bigger part of life in the future.
