dc.contributor.author
Rillig, Matthias C.
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Mansour, India
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Hempel, Stefan
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Bi, Mohan
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König-Ries, Birgitta
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Kasirzadeh, Atoosa
dc.date.accessioned
2024-03-04T06:13:56Z
dc.date.available
2024-03-04T06:13:56Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/42614
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-42338
dc.description.abstract
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models will have broad impacts on society including the scientific enterprise; ecology and environmental science will be no exception. Here, we discuss the potential opportunities and risks of advanced generative AI for visual material (images and video) for the science of ecology and the environment itself. There are clearly opportunities for positive impacts, related to improved communication, for example; we also see possibilities for ecological research to benefit from generative AI (e.g., image gap filling, biodiversity surveys, and improved citizen science). However, there are also risks, threatening to undermine the credibility of our science, mostly related to actions of bad actors, for example in terms of spreading fake information or committing fraud. Risks need to be mitigated at the level of government regulatory measures, but we also highlight what can be done right now, including discussing issues with the next generation of ecologists and transforming towards radically open science workflows.
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5 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject
artificial intelligence
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generative AI
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science credibility
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dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
dc.title
How widespread use of generative AI for images and video can affect the environment and the science of ecology
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
e14397
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1111/ele.14397
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Ecology Letters
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
3
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
27
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14397
refubium.affiliation
Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Biologie
refubium.funding
DEAL Wiley
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin gefördert.
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1461-0248