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Altman Says AI’s Effect on Society Could Be Like Photoshop ‘On Steroids’

Photo: Bill Clark
Photo: Bill Clark (AP)

Altman acknowledges rapidly growing concerns over AI’s potential to deceive users through sophisticated chatbots and deepfakes. Though he admitted he was “concerned,” Altman said society expressed a similar type of phenomenon with Adobe’s Photoshop image editing tool.

“I think people are able to adapt quickly,” Altman said. “When Photoshop came onto the scene a long time ago, for a while people were really quite fooled by photoshopped images but then pretty quickly developed an understanding that images might be photoshopped. This will be like that but on steroids.