Always fact-check content provided by an AI tool!

• Question the content that has been generated
• Verify the information predicted. Does it make sense?
• Use an evaluation method such as the Dependability Checklist or SIFT method.
• Use the generated content to inspire your own pursuit of knowledge and creativity.

Generative AI (GAI) technology is changing rapidly. A few considerations while using GAI are:

• Privacy concerns: The application you use might collect your personal information.
• Copyright: GAI content does not always credit authors; fact-check the information retrieved.
• GAI hallucinations: Applications sometimes provide inaccurate information or believe the information retrieved from websites is true. Thus, sometimes, you might receive false content.
• Bias: The information GAI uses is retrieved from accessible web information. This content often includes the biases of its creators.
• Inequities: Not all users have access to computational devices nor the expertise to use these applications. GAI currently contributes to the digital divide by empowering those who can afford the technology.
• Inconsistent regulation: Although AI regulation is now under development, there is a lack of consistency among organizations. See the American Bar Associations' review regarding AI regulations in the United States.

Note that these considerations are not all-inclusive.

When using GAI to enhance knowledge and the lives of its users, GAI can assist with:

• Provide resources to improve the lives of people with disabilities via apps that can create sound, provide text and/or captions for AV resources, and provide translations, including sign language.
• GAI can summarize vast amounts of knowledge (documents, virtual meetings, and web content). Thus, allowing the researcher to build new knowledge by quickly accessing a larger amount of research.
• Increased productivity in creating new applications as GAI can contribute to coding.
• Chatbots or information agents continue to advance to a more human-like interaction with users along with improved use of natural human language.

Just as above, this is not a complete list. These are a few examples of how to use GAI.

Examples:

• Speech Note: note taking and reading with speech to text and text to speech.
• Hand Talk: text and voice translation to sign language.
• CodingBat: online programming practice in Java and Python.
• NeuralVoices: voice generator.