Below are all free to try with a small sample of trial credits. 

• Night timeCafe – Generate images based on prompts. 
• Pollo.ai – Make a text image into a short video clip
• Brevi.ai – Make a song with your own lyrics

Activity: 
We are going to write a fun song about our course/ workplace/ subject of note, but let AI write the entire song and make the music which goes along with it. 

Quick Summary of Instructions 

1. Open ChatGPT – Ask it to write song lyrics on topic 
2. Copy output of lyrics
3. Open BREVI AI (Free AI Song generator) select advanced, and paste in ChatGPT lyrics
4. Assign a style, (Western, Jazz, 80s Rock) and generate a song
5. Keep Lyrics and assign a different style to generate a different song

• ChatGPT
• Gemini
• Perplexity
• Anthropic 
• DeepSeek

• Gamma

• Literature Review
  • Elicit
• Research Synthesis
  • Perplexity
• Coding Research
  • Confidence
• Scanning Field of Study
  • The Lens 
  • Scinapse
• Curiosity Extra for Research
  • Check out Future House AI – Four birds (Raven or Owl)

Anyone can face risks regardless of how many preventative steps they take. It is very important not to criticize or blame anyone for experiencing harm, even if they could have done more to protect themselves. This section outlines steps and best practices researchers can adopt before and during the research process to help minimize harmful consequences.

Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practices There are a variety of preventative technical solutions that can be used to protect privacy if a researcher is at risk of being harassed, doxed, stalked, or blackmailed. Practicing baseline cybersecurity and privacy practices can shore up several immediate vulnerabilities. We recommend a researcher spends a few weeks before disseminating any research engaging in these basic operational security (OpSec) measures. Guides like Equality Labs’ Anti-Doxing Guide for Activists provide detailed, step-by-step instructions on protecting one’s online information and making digital devices more secure. First, researchers should assess what personal information is publicly available, a practice sometimes referred to as “self-doxxing.”

To minimize risk, consider the following steps: 

• Search for personal information online: Google your name and check university websites for publicly listed details
• Look up your address on sites like Whitepages.com, Spokeo, or other data aggregators
• Check to see if your office location and office hours are posted on university websites
• See if your phone number appears on your CV or other publicly available documents

Assess social media and pseudonyms: Search for any pseudonyms you have used, past or present, to see if they are linked to your full name or other identifying details. Review profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter/X, and other platforms to check what appears in search results. Adjust the privacy settings on all accounts you are currently using to ensure only information you are comfortable sharing is visible.

Check older and archived accounts: Look for inactive accounts on older websites (e.g., MySpace, Flickr) Search the Internet Archive and archive.today to see if personal information is still accessible. Delete unused accounts when possible. If you are a long-time Twitter/X user, consider archiving your old tweets.

Secure shared documents: If using cloud-based platforms like Google Docs, ensure that files are only accessible to trusted collaborators.

Enlist a second opinion: Ask tech-savvy friends or colleagues to conduct similar searches—they may find information you overlooked.

*Copied from the AOIR Risky Research Report 2025 coauthored by Dr. Ryan Payne