People are supergluing costume vampire fangs to their teeth, eating cereal from another person’s mouth and peeing in their pants. The goal is to make viral TikTok videos. As time passes, the videos on TikTok are becoming more ludicrous and also quite harmful as they seem to be emulating the American TV series franchise “Jackass.” A female TikTokker ended up in the hospital after styling her hair with gorilla glue, a 13-year-old boy died doing the Benadryl challenge, and teen drivers suffered car accidents after performing the “Cha-Cha Slide” challenge (swerving all over the road ). Essentially, the success formula for TikTok seems to be: the crazier the video, the more views (at the cost of your safety, no less).
In the modern age of rapid technological advancements, our lives have become increasingly intertwined with the digital world. From the inception of the internet, it has been taking over our lives at a rapidly growing speed. So much so that now we find ourselves online at almost every moment of our waking lives.
Earlier this year, a photo of Pope Francis wearing a trendy white puffer coat went viral, only to be uncovered as an AI-generated image. From that point on, the discussion of the ethics revolving around the use of AI to generate images of public figures arose, especially considering that thousands of people initially believed it to be true.
Amid recent news surrounding the constantly evolving world of artificial intelligence, Meta has released an open-source AI software that the public can use to build their own AI chatbots.