Another TikTok song has gone viral these last few weeks and has completely topped the charts at #25 on Spotify Global and #11 on Spotify US. The song in question is called “I Run.” by HAVEN, and has been completely banned from most musical platforms because it was allegedly created solely by artificial intelligence. A few days later, a Christian singer named Forest Frank posted on Instagram. It included an alleged accusation of a completely AI-created Christian album (Foley). This begs the question of where we draw the line when it comes to AI. If we let AI start to act as though it is fully human and portray the same characteristics, we inevitably become irrelevant.
AI has been relevant for the majority of my upper elementary school days to the present, but has become extremely popular over the past couple of years. People all over the world use it positively to increase efficiency, like Google Maps estimation time or on streaming services, giving people more personalized recommendations, but in the end, the limit of regulation of AI, or lack thereof, is what is driving AI to be used in harmful ways. AI is harmful when it takes the place of human creativity and thought. There is no control over what is moral and what is not, and it is taking advantage of the struggling part of our society.
Almost all of us have had a universal experience of someone in the older generations sending something that is clearly AI-generated, and we just roll our eyes. We, as people who have grown up with technology, have it much easier with spotting reality from AI, but they don’t. They didn’t grow up with this technology and are still just learning the basics, so adding a whole new aspect that is much more deceiving is a hard thing to grasp for them. According to a poll done by KFF Health Misinformation Tracking, 56% of adults are not confident in discerning what is true and what is AI-related content (“KFF Health Misinformation Tracking Poll: Artificial Intelligence and Health Information”). This shows that without supervision, it could detrimentally affect someone and cause confusion and misinformation to spread.
Another group of people who are directly affected by the negative effects of AI are people who struggle with mental health. In this generation, especially Gen Z, they (you can pick what fits best here) are struggling with in-person relationships and interactions. A study done by Harmony Healthcare found that 46% of Gen Z have been diagnosed with a mental health complication, and the leading cause is social media and phones, and AI is only increasing that (“State of Gen Z Mental Health 2025”). With a worldwide pandemic and cut-off social interactions, it’s no wonder that this generation is struggling so immensely. AI has been like a crutch for most of society because they can rely on it to do work, but for Gen Z, it is more of a friend. AI acts as if it knows you and never has any complications or awkwardness, as normal real-life friendships can, giving Gen Z the perfect companion, but only increasing their loneliness. If this continues, the statistic above will only rise.
AI as a tool has benefited society greatly and led to many new and improved thoughts that have bettered us as a whole, but are we willing to sacrifice human thought and our mental health to do so? With social media and the internet already being so hard to sift through, AI will advance and become harder to distinguish truth from lies. The people who are mainly impacted by this will just continue to grow until we forget how it was before. Everything has positives and negatives, but there is a moral line everyone has, and I believe that we have to decrease or limit how we use this tool to prevent the negative implications that have already affected so many. AI is only going to grow, so as it does, we have to become more educated so that we aren’t taken advantage of.
Works Cited
Foley, Ryan. “Forrest Frank speaks out as AI artist nabs top Christian album on iTunes.” Christian Post, 20 November 2025, https://www.christianpost.com/news/forrest-frank-speaks-out-as-ai-artist-nabs-top-christian-album.html. Accessed 21 November 2025.
“KFF Health Misinformation Tracking Poll: Artificial Intelligence and Health Information.” KFF, 15 August 2024, https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/kff-health-misinformation-tracking-poll-artificial-intelligence-and-health-information/. Accessed 1 December 2025.
“State of Gen Z Mental Health 2025.” Harmony Healthcare IT, 15 June 2025, https://www.harmonyhit.com/state-of-gen-z-mental-health/. Accessed 30 November 2025.
