What is fiction? Do we know?
Sumaiya Motara
Preston-based freelance journalist who works on broadcasts and local democratic reports
Recently, an older family member showed me a video on Facebook. I pressed the game and saw Donald Trump accuse India of violating the ceasefire agreement with Pakistan. If it isn’t that unique, I’ll be fooled. After cross-reference videos with news sources, it is clear that Trump is a victim of false imaging of AI. I explained this, but my family refused to believe me, insisting that it was true because it seemed real. If I’m not there to dissuade them, they will forward it to 30 people.
On another occasion, my tiktok homepage surfaced. It shows male immigrants climbing from the boat and bringing them to the UK. “We survived this dangerous journey,” said one. “Go to the five-star Marriott hotel now.” The video has received nearly 380,000 views in a month. The 22 videos on the account, titled MigrantVlog, thanks to the people for the Labour party’s “free” buffet, feeling “blessed” after receiving £2,000 of e-bikes forviraloo delivery and burning union flags.
Even if a person’s arms don’t disappear halfway through the video or the plate disappears into thin air, I can say that the content is AI-generated due to blurred backgrounds and weird simulated characters. But can thousands of others watch it? Unfortunately, not many people seem to be able to do it. Racist and anti-immigrant positions dominated the comment section.
I’m worried about the blurring of facts and novels, and I think this unrestricted ability of AI is very dangerous. this Online Security Law Focus on state-sponsored disinformation. But what happens when the average person spreads videos like Wildfire (think they are real videos)? The riots last summer were fueled by inflammatory AI visual effects, with only the source Full facts Work hard to reduce noise. I worry that there are few media literacy people who succumb to the false nature of AI generation, which exacerbates the pot.
AI can help tell great stories – but who controls the narrative?
Rukanah Mogra
Leicester reporters work in sports media and digital communications with Harborough Town FC
The first time I dared to use AI at work, it was to help with game reports. I’m on a pressing deadline and tired, my opening paragraph doesn’t work. I fed some comments into the AI tool and, surprisingly, it came up with the title and introduction to the actual click. It saved me time and let me unbutton it – it was a relief when the clock ticked.
But AI is not a magic wand. It cleans up clumsy sentences and helps reduce wording, but can’t chase the source, capture the atmosphere or know when you need to change direction. Those instinctive calls are still up to me.
What makes AI particularly useful is that it feels like an unjudgmented editor. As a young freelance journalist, I don’t always get regular editorial support. Sharing early drafts with real-life editors can feel exposed, especially when you’re still looking for sounds. But Chatgpt has no judgment. It allows me to experiment, perfect the clumsy wording, and build confidence before I hit send.
That is to say, I’m cautious. In journalism, it is easy to rely on tools that promise speed. But if AI starts to shape how the story tells — or worse, which stories tell — we have the potential to lose the creativity, challenges, and friction that makes the report meaningful. Currently, AI is an assistant. But it still depends on the direction we set.
Author’s note: I wrote the first draft of the above article myself, drawing on real experience and personal opinions. I then used Chatgpt to help tighten the process, suggesting clearer wording and polishing styles. I prompted the AI’s request: “Rewrite with a natural, eloquent guardian voice.” While AI gave me useful advice and time savings, the core idea, sound and structure are still mine.
Will our environment pay for AI?
Frances Briggs
Manchester-based science website Editor
AI is very powerful. It’s an impressive technological advancement and if I think something else I’d bury my head on the beach. But I’m very worried. I worry that my work will not exist in five years, and I worry about its environmental impact.
Trying to understand the actual impact of AI is difficult; the main participants keep their statistics on their chest. What I saw was that things were terrible. one Recent research The paper spits out some ugly numbers. (It joins Other papers This reveals a similar story. ) Team believes A case study: Openai’s Chatgpt-4O model. Its annual consumption is roughly the same as energy consumption for 35,000 households. It’s about 450,000 kWh-1. Or 325 universities. Or 5 hospitals in the United States.
That’s not all. These supercomputers also have cooling. Social media crowds are terrifying numbers about AI’s data processing centers, and they are not far away. Approximately needed 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools According to the latest estimates, water is used to cool the processing unit of Chatgpt-4O.
AI agents like Free Product Confusion or Claude don’t actually seem to consume as much electricity. most, Global total energy AI still consumes less than 1% of the people per year. But at the same time, the data processing center In Ireland Last year, the country consumed 22% of the total electricity used nationwide, rather than urban housing. For context, there is 80 data processing centers In Ireland. Currently, there More than 6,000 In the United States only, data processing centers. Since 2018, these numbers may be completely different in a year as AI absorbs almost exponentially.
Despite all these horrible statistics, I have to hope that things aren’t as worrying as they seem. Researchers have worked hard to meet the demand as they explore more efficient economical processing units, etc. using nanoscale materials. And, when you compare the first language learning models from seven years ago to those created today, their iterations go far beyond the previous inefficiencies. Energy-hungry processing centers will become less greedy – experts just want to figure out how.
If AI was a matchmaker, would I know the person I was going to date?
Saranka Maheswaran
Student in London, pursuing journalism and her studies
“You need to get there and meet a lot of people, dates, dates, dates!” The cliches I often hear when I talk to people about 20s. After a few suspicious dates and a juicy gossip meeting with friends, a new fear emerged. What if they use AI to send me messages?
Too formal response or too perfect for a conversation starter is the problem I’m receiving. I’m not totally opposed to AI, nor do I have to completely object to it that will prevent it from developing. But I do worry that we can make a real connection with people.
About your speaking, writing, or having your own insecurity, the same generation as AI can easily prey. It might start with a simple prompt asking chatgpt to make the message sound more friendly, but it can also grow into a sinister relationship where you can rely on technology and lose confidence in your voice. Annual iteration in 2025 match.com Singles in the United States, Production Working with the Kingsey Institute at Indiana University, it was discovered that one in four singles in the United States used AI on dates.
Maybe I’m overly cynical. But for those who are unsure how their personality will meet on dates, or how they see them in the message, they should believe that if this should be the case – if AI has too much say in the way you communicate, you may lose yourself.
I can see humans and artificial intelligence learning together
Iman Khan
Last year student at Cambridge University specializes in social anthropology
The advancement of AI in education has led me to question any claim to be fair or neutral. The age of AI brings any information that needs to be carefully studied on our way.
This is more real than ever in our college AI is increasingly assisting. We cannot isolate AI from education right now, but we must be prepared to carefully examine the mechanisms and narratives based on the technology itself and shape its use.
One of my first encounters with AI education was requesting a resource for reading with my courses. I thought the tool would play the role of a high-level search engine. But I soon saw the hallucination trend of Chatgpt – Take false or misleading information as facts – Make it both a producer and disseminator of information, otherwise it is wrong.
I initially viewed it as a small barrier to the huge possibility of AI, especially because I knew it would improve over time. However, I’m also becoming more and more aware that Chatgpt, Gemini and other AI chatbots help spread false information.
AI makes humans and technology unstable. There is research to do on the potential impact of AI on all social sciences. We need to study how to integrate it into our learning and lifestyle. I want to be involved in research on how we adapt to the role of AI, not only as a tool, but also as an active participant in society.
London-based graduate students specialize in architecture
In our first year of college, we discouraged using AI for our architecture papers and models, and used it only to proofread our work. However, in my last year, it introduced more about the process of our rendering and augmenting design work.
Our studio tutors provide us with mini rituals on how to create AI tips viscosity. This allows us to put any model or drawing created into an AI prompt asking it to create a conceptual design that suits our suggestion. It makes my original idea more complex and can be designed extensively. Although this is useful at the conceptual stage of our work, AI will not be delivered if the prompts are inaccurate, so we learned how to become more strategic. After using the work as the final touch, I used it specifically to create seamless final images.
In my first and second years, AI didn’t have much impact on my work design process. I mainly use existing buildings for design inspiration. But AI has introduced new forms of innovation, which has accelerated the speed at which we can push the boundaries of work. It also makes the creative process more experimental, opening up a new method of design and visualization.
Now that I have completed my degree, I’m glad to see that using AI can grow more architectures. Initially, I believed that AI was not the most creative way to design. Now, I see it as a tool to improve our design. It cannot replace human creativity, but it can enhance it.
Architectural practices always ask job applicants for software skills using AI, and you can already see how to integrate it into your design and project. It has been important to keep the latest advances in construction technology – AI reiterated that.
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