Deep Dive Into Jane Lee

The article explains how AI writing assistants and predictive text can subtly influence people’s opinions and attitudes on social issues without them realizing it. Researchers found that AI-generated suggestions may shape how users think, similar to how social media trends and peer pressure influence people in everyday life. The article encourages readers to think critically and form independent opinions instead of automatically accepting ideas from their environment.

Thinking Question for Jane English: The article reveals how AI’s predictive text and auto-complete features can perform a “subtle manipulation,” quietly reshaping our thoughts and values on social issues without our conscious awareness. Let’s expand this scientific insight into the realm of Social Influence and Intellectual Independence. In our daily lives, we are surrounded not just by AI algorithms, but also by “human auto-completes”—such as the trending opinions of friends, popular social media influencers, or the dominant culture at school that constantly suggests how we should think, talk, or react. As an analytical thinker, how do you distinguish between an opinion that you truly formed through your own critical reflection, and a thought that you merely “accepted” because your environment automatically completed it for you? What is one specific topic where you want to pause the “auto-complete” of public opinion and purposefully write your own unique paragraph?

I think one thing that I deliberately stopped the “auto complete” was the wide acceptance of AI usage. Even in my school, the teachers seem to be insistent on using AI unnessesarily in their teaching, or when asking us to do something. They ask us to generate AI images, when we could just design them ourselves, or do something else. It doesn’t bring any benefits into our classroom, yet they always do it. Not only that, a lot of the promotional videos that the school posts has AI in it, AI image generation. I know for a fact that it causes detrimental harm to the environment, and I don’t want to partake in that. I don’t want to do useless activities where I don’t do anything beneficial with AI. AI teachers/learning systems are a different thing- They are useful when researching and useful when helping me understand concepts. But it is most definitely not useful at all for us to be using so much of AI generated images towards something so not meaningful. AI videos have been surfacing everywhere, and AI art has been surfacing everywhere as well. I cannot understand the people who support this behavior. It is wrong for many reasons.

1. It causes harm to actual creators and artists (AI art steals art from real artists and creators- When I mean “art” I mean the broad terms of art, like video taking and drama etc.)
2. There is no purpose to it, None of it is educational, and even if it is, its not nearly important enough for people to be wasting so many gallons of water on AI generated videos, especially when most of it is just brainrot or misinformation
3. AI can be used for much more useful things rather than entertainment. If we are to use thousands of resources on AI, then we should use it for the greater good, not on useless entertainment, which can be perfectly done with REAL humans with REAL talent.
4. AI video generation is incredibly bad for the environment. SO much harm is done to the environment. Already, energy usages are skyrocketing because of useless AI generation, and AI content that is NOT educational, or helping society.