Generative AI and Cyberbullying

Generative AI is often discussed for what it can create. In Generative AI and Cyberbullying, Ravindra Das turns attention to a more urgent question: how might these tools help address online harassment? The book connects the realities of cyberbullying with the technologies, app-development choices, and AI concepts that could inform responses to it.

Start with the human impact

The opening chapter establishes the problem before turning to technology. It distinguishes cyberbullying from traditional bullying, cyberstalking, and cyberharassment, and considers different forms of online abuse and their effects on children, adults, workplaces, and social-media communities. The author also draws on personal experience as a bullying victim.

From safety apps to thoughtful design

Das explores anti-cyberbullying and parental-monitoring apps, along with the development decisions behind such tools. The discussion addresses common software-development mistakes and how they can be corrected. It also introduces the Technology Acceptance Model and considers perceived usefulness, ease of use, and user attitudes when evaluating an anti-cyberbullying app.

Understand the AI behind the applications

The book then builds an introduction to generative AI through its possible outputs, natural-language processing, n-grams, probabilistic models, and neural networks. Later chapters turn to more advanced ideas, including variational autoencoders, adversarial networks, diffusion models, DALL-E 2, and Stable Diffusion.

Where cybersecurity and generative AI meet

By pairing online-harm topics with app design and AI fundamentals, this book gives readers several useful lenses on the subject: the experience of cyberbullying, the design and assessment of technology intended to help, and the underlying generative-AI methods. It is suited to readers seeking an introduction to these intersecting areas rather than a guide focused on a single app or AI system.

A focused introduction for curious readers

With five chapters and an appendix on generative deep learning, Generative AI and Cyberbullying offers a structured overview for readers interested in cybersecurity, digital safety, and the potential role of generative AI in responding to online abuse.