Tag: synthetic media
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We Need to Talk About Deepfakes
Deepfakes are a hot topic in the media right now, and understandably so. Advances in different areas of AI technologies have quickly made the comedic lip syncs of 2018’s Barack Obama deepfakes look almost quaint. Everybody now has easy access to tools which can create compelling image, audio, and even video deepfakes with limited technical…
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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…