Using AI. For good? For evil? And how do you know?

AI deepfakes and manipulation has made the news recently as they are actively being used to deceive, destroy, and fight. Is it being used for good, evil, or just out of sheer laziness and how do you know?

1) Racist Influencers Using OpenAI’s Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/racist-sora-snap-welfare

2) Hacker Dressed as the Pink Ranger Takes Down White Supremacist Websites Live Onstage
https://gizmodo.com/hacker-dressed-as-the-pink-ranger-takes-down-white-supremacist-websites-live-onstage-2000705690

3) If the War Against the Machines Is Fought Via Martial Arts, Humans Are Gonna Catch an Epic Beat Down
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/humanoid-robots-martial-arts-humans-screwed

4) AI videos of animals could be dangerous. Here’s how to spot them.
Researchers warn that they can distort our connection to wildlife.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/how-to-spot-ai-animal-video/

5) The Rise of AI and Deepfakes Threaten Democracy: Legal Scholar Wes Henricksen Shows the Path Forward
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/10/30/how-leaders-in-politics-business-and-media-profit-from-lies/

6) AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-deepfakes-are-impersonating-pastors-to-try-and-scam-their-congregations/

7) The use of AI-generated deepfakes in campaign ads: Lying is the problem, not AI
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5624624-lying-ai-problem-politics/

8) Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled
https://apnews.com/article/school-deepfake-nude-ai-cyberbullying-0ead324241cf390e1a7f3378853f23cb

10) Theft is not fair use
Artificial Intelligence companies have a copyright problem, and they know it.
https://jskfellows.stanford.edu/theft-is-not-fair-use-474e11f0d063

11) Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

12) Doctors Horrified After Google’s Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans
https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-healthcare-ai-makes-up-body-part?utm_social_handle_id=352364611609411&utm_social_post_id=644464034

13) Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds
From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites.
https://www.wired.com/story/scammers-in-china-are-using-ai-generated-images-to-get-refunds/

14) How to use ChatGPT to boost your writing
Become a more efficient and better writer with the help of AI.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2964702/chat-gpt-as-a-writing-aid-how-to-create-better-texts.html