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Artificial Intelligence Services Audience Barometer – 1st edition
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The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) services is rapidly transforming the way French people use digital technology. This study provides an overview of their user base, analyses the main usage trends and highlights the growing role of these services in the digital landscape.
How many French people use artificial intelligence? Which AI services are the most widely used? And which French people use them the most?
Arcom supports the transformation of the audiovisual and digital landscape by analysing new uses and their impact on information, content creation and online platforms. Artificial intelligence technologies, particularly generative AI, raise major challenges regarding the reliability of information, the protection of the public – especially persons under 18 – royalties and freedom of communication.
As part of its role in regulation, Arcom monitors these developments, informs public debate through its research and forward-looking studies, and contributes to the development of a regulatory framework adapted to the new challenges of the digital age.
Key figures
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AI in the production of child pornography
In another development in usage patterns, the Arcom study notes that persons under 18’s pornography-related activities now incorporate artificial intelligence.
Certain AI platforms do indeed allow users to create, customise and interact with virtual characters in adult and erotic contexts, combining dialogue with pornographic content. Furthermore, the time spent on certain adult websites offering AI-generated pornographic content appears to be increasing.
As with television and radio, Arcom protects youngsters in the digital sphere from content unsuitable for their age.
Find out more about Arcom’s work to protect persons under 18 from online pornography.
Arcom’s work in the field of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence technologies are playing an increasingly central role in the activities of organisations regulated by the Authority, both in the field of audiovisual and artistic creation and in the creation and diffusion of information.
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Artificial intelligence and media literacy
In partnership with the Council for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology, Arcom provides tools and analytical frameworks to help understand the uses of artificial intelligence in the production, diffusion and consumption of information.
This educational resource helps to identify the opportunities offered by these new technologies, as well as the risks they pose in terms of the reliability of information, disinformation and the exercise of critical thinking.
Browse Arcom’s educational resources
Focus on: Artificial intelligence and information
Educational resource: “Artificial Intelligence and Information: Challenges and Tools for Informed Use”
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