If you told me in 2023 that in 2 years we would have trouble identifying AI because of how realistic and real it looked, I would have not believed you. Back when AI was revealed to the public, with chat bots like ChatGPT nobody realized the potential with it. After all, it hadn’t become mainstream yet.
Besides chatbots, another form of artificial intelligence was made. One that could generate pictures and videos with a prompt. I remember back then I was scrolling on Tik Tok when I watched an AI generated video of the Rock eating rocks. It was comical since it was obviously fake with the way its animation looked like a slideshow presentation. The comments were saying how AI would never replace us. But 2 years later I cannot say that it is still the same.
With AI smart intelligence being able to adapt over time with data scoured from the internet it’s no surprise that AI will soon be unrecognizable. A video of a dog that looks real may be made from AI and we’ll never be able to tell the difference. It’s happening right now with Facebook and parents commenting on AI pictures and not being able to tell them apart. But why is that? How has AI evolved so quickly that maybe 3 years from now we’ll go on social media and not be able to tell the difference between reality and AI?
ChatGPT was first announced to the public in November 2022 for free. The traction didn’t start to keep until we were into 2023. People started to realize the potential we had with such technologies. But even though it would be able to answer and do most taks, it still had a flaw. The major flaw was that it wasn’t capable of doing higher thinking tasks. It hadn’t collected enough user responses to have a higher thinking.
That was until it boomed in popularity on Tik Tok as the go to machine that was able to do your work. With the massive increase in users, ChatGPT started to become smarter as more analytics was gathered. Then came the users, causing the creators to create better versions of ChatGPT. AI is not going anywhere soon and is bound to improve itself with data from user feedback and responses.
Along with ChatGPT other AI started to pop up. One being an AI that was able to generate pictures. But the problem with an AI that was able to generate pictures and videos, but it didn’t understand how videos or drawings work.
Back then if you were to type in a prompt it would have given you something that looked totally AI generated. But just like ChatGPT it started to collect data. However, this time it wasn’t data from users that was requesting prompts. It was the entire internet. Being able to analyze thousands if not millions of videos, photos, and other such across the internet made the AI grow faster. Comparing photos or videos from 2023 to 2025 there’s a stark difference. Before it couldn’t even generate a video with it being choppy and fake. Now there’s thousands of AI generated videos circulating the internet that would require a close look to tell if it’s real or not.
Though the future of AI is not set in stone, the evolution of AI will keep on continuing. Later on in our years we’ll think back to now and say “wow artificial intelligence wasn’t that smart back then.” just like how we are saying it now. It’s inevitable that the advance of AI will not be stopped. It will just continue to get better and better…