Tag: AI-generated content

• The Semiotics of Synthetic Media: Production and Meaning in Digital Plastic

  

  Lately I’ve been digging in to the metaphor of Generative AI content as “digital plastic”. I first wrote about it back in 2023 in this article, where I defined the media as a “mass produced, synthetic form of data that like its physical counterpart doesn’t degrade much over time” and likened it to the way…

  Leon Furze

  August 7, 2024

  AI, Critical Perspectives, PhD

  AI, AI-generated content, Baudrillard, ChatGPT, digital plastic, Kress and Van Leeuwen, Multimodal Discourse, Production, semiotics, stochastic parrots, synthetic media

• Hands on with chat + search: connecting generative AI to the internet

  

  So far in this series I’ve taken a look at image generation with Adobe’s Firefly, audio generation with tools like MusicLM and Stable audio, and voice generation via ElevenLabs. In this post, I’m going back to where this wave of AI hype began with ChatGPT and text generation. However, plenty has changed since my early…

  Leon Furze

  October 2, 2023

  AI, Hands On

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