Artificial intelligence techniques used in simulation and producing two- and three-dimensional visual scenes of climate change, and employing them in visual coverage of climate change on specialized platforms and electronic journalistic websites

Document Type : Original Article

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Journalism Lecturer - Faculty of Mass Communication - Menoufia University

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The current study has aimed to monitor the artificial intelligence techniques used in the two- and three-dimensional graphic simulation and treatment of climate change issues and the extent of their use in the photo journalistic treatment of climate change issues. The sample of platforms that monitored the artificial intelligence techniques used in producing two- and three-dimensional visual scenes of climate change are represented in two platforms:

ClimateNeRF platform
This Climate Does Not Exist website

A sample of electronic newspaper websites employing artificial intelligence techniques used in producing and processing visual scenes of two-dimensional climate changes includes: The website of the British newspaper Metro, The Times of India newspaper website, USA Today newspaper website
The study depends on media survey methodology, qualitive shape analysis tool, content analysis, and simulation theory
The study reached several results: The simulation techniques monitored in the two study platforms were; ClimateNeRf depending on Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), GAN1 Climate, Stable Diffusion2, Swapping Autoencoder, 3D stylization, GANs Generative Adversarial Networks, kitti
The British newspaper Metro employed artificial intelligence techniques in simulating and producing two-dimensional still images, but the treatments carried out on them, using artificial intelligence techniques, reflect the future negative effects of climate change, the newspaper played on future strategies. Most of the simulations that embodied the future negative impacts of climate change in the British newspaper Metro were dominated by rising sea levels (floods). The website of the English-language newspaper The Times of India provided still images, representing scenes in some countries, that were processed with artificial intelligence. To look like the best simulation of climate scenario for the city, these same scenes were then processed again with artificial intelligence; to reflect a future vision of the negative effects of climate change in these countries through these comic scenes. The USA Today website presented five images processed with artificial intelligence (GAN) technology as part of simulated the This Climate Does Not Exist platform experience. The results of the techniques that were employed on the newspaper websites under study, compared to the artificial intelligence techniques provided by artificial intelligence platforms specialized in addressing climate change issues, indicate that the newspaper websites have employed artificial intelligence techniques to produce 2D visual models of future climate change threats; by applying the Midjourney technology to both the websites of the British newspaper Metro and The Times of India published in English. The website of the American newspaper USA Today relied on pictorial models that reflect the future threats of the negative effects of climate change. Through the models of the This Climate Does Not Exist platform, the newspaper’s website relied on static images, not animated models as on the platform.
The ClimateNeRf platform was the first to address and simulate the negative impacts of climate change at the technical level. It employed ClimateNeRf technology, which produces and simulates 3D image scenes at the quantum processing level. It produced a large number of treatments within the framework of multiple negative impacts of climate change at the qualitative level.
 
 

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