Computers may soon be able to determine what you see based on your brain waves.
AI technology may be able to generate images of our minds
Researchers recently showed that artificial intelligence (AI) can read brain scans and recreate versions of images a person has seen. The new study adds to growing concerns that AI could invade privacy.
“The latest AI craze remains ChatGPT, but privacy experts have raised the fact that the tool was trained on virtually everything scraped from the internet, including our personal information,” Kevin Gordon, NexOptic’s vice president of AI Technologies, told Lifewire in an email interview. “This was done without anyone’s knowledge and without even a chance to give consent. And because ChatGPT works with prompts, there are concerns that users could inadvertently include personal information in those prompts, which is then stored in ChatGPT’s database.”
The researchers involved in the new study used an algorithm called Stable Diffusion, similar to other text-to-image “generative” AIs such as DALL-E 2. The software can produce new images from text prompts. The team reduced the training time for each participant by incorporating photo captions into the algorithm.
