AI & Digital Life · 45 sec
Synthetic media
A useful mental model for the technology shaping daily life.
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- The useful idea
Synthetic media is digital content in various media formats, including text, image, and video, which has been automatically and artificially produced or manipulated.
- How it works
Although not all synthetic media is AI-generated, it often refers to the use of generative AI to produce content, such as deepfakes, through the use of artificial intelligence within a set of
- Why it matters
Synthetic media as a field has grown rapidly since the creation of generative adversarial networks, primarily through the rise of deepfakes as well as music synthesis, text generation, human image
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Use Synthetic media as a lens when judging what a digital tool can — and cannot — do.
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Synthetic media is digital content in various media formats, including text, image, and video, which has been automatically and artificially produced or manipulated.