Kuala Lumpur: The recent wave of sloppy representations of the Malaysia flag shows that the country needs clearer regulations on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), in particular when it implies subjects of national importance, experts said.
In two of the at least four incidents this month involving an inaccurate representation of the Jalur Gemilang – which means stripes of glory – AI would have been used to generate images.
In the first of the errors, the first page of the newspaper Printed edition of Sin Chew Chew Daily has shown the flag of Malaysia without the crescent moon, which symbolizes Islam, the official religion of the country.
The other incident involved the Ministry of Education, whose analysis report of the exam results distributed on April 24 showed the Jalur Gemilang with two stars instead of one, as well as eight red and white stripes alternated instead of 14. Striks symbolize the equal status of the 13 states of Malaysia and federal territories, while the star symbolizes their unit.
Incidents show that Malaysia public institutions and the private sector have easily adopted AI, but often neglect its defects and potential damages, analysts said.
The gaps serve as “warning” to take the governance of AI more seriously, in particular in sensitive fields such as national symbols, said media analyst Nuurrianti Jalli by Is-Yusof Ishak Institute of Singapore.
Not only the brilliant path
But it was not only IA images involving national emblems that have attributed public concern and have led to calls for better regulations.
On April 19, for example, an image allegedly generated by the AI of a Durian farm surrounded by forest speculation sparked the issue of illegal farmers in the state of Pahang in Malaysia.
According to the South China Morning Post, the image legend suggested that it had been taken in a “hidden place” and thus fueled the conviction of the public that there were other illegal farms hidden in the dense forests of the region.
The Malaysian communications and multimedia and multimedia commission questioned the man who downloaded the image.
Other cases involved false images showing the supposed “arrest” of the country of the country of the Ibrahim country, as well as the sexual content created with Deepfake technology.
