A Good Use of AI

I just received this email from my oldest son's school, and as the parent of adopted kids, for whom we constantly strive to be as private as possible, I really appreciate this. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology mean that images shared on websites, social media platforms and other publicly accessible sources can potentially be downloaded and manipulated without consent. While we have always taken care when using student images, we have been advised that the growing availability of AI image-generation tools has significantly increased this risk. Consequently, we are updating our approach to the use of student images in public-facing communications. In hard-copy or online school publications which are widely available, we will no longer use images in which our students can easily be identified. To allow us to continue to give a visual flavour of school life, we may use AI-generated illustrative images featuring entirely fictional people. These images will not depict…