r/MediaSynthesis

13K archived posts · Jan 2018 – Sep 2026

AI-generated and manipulated content

r/MediaSynthesis

**Synthetic media describes the use of artificial intelligence to generate and manipulate data, most often to automate the creation of entertainment.** This field encompasses deepfakes, image synthesis, audio synthesis, text synthesis, style transfer, speech synthesis, and much more.

Created Jan 27, 2018

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Overview of Synthetic Media

Synthetic media describes the use of artificial intelligence to generate and manipulate data, most often to automate the creation of entertainment.

One of the inevitable capabilities of artificial general intelligence will be the ability to understand and synthesize reality. As such it should not be to anyone's shock that as we approach the era of general AI our computers become increasingly capable of mimicking creativity and imagination to generate new and altered forms of media.

One of the capabilities of artificial intelligence is the ability to generate content for use in music, visual art, CGI, and photo/video manipulation. Generation, smart manipulation, personalized content, and media synthesis are woefully overlooked abilities of machine learning. With this technology, we can use it for the better— such as giving the ability of Hollywood movie and Triple-A gaming studios to bedroom devs— or for worse...

Some of the possibilities of this technology include:

Supercharging fake news
Creating art from simple sketches
Generating movies and comics
Reducing costs of creating media
Bridging the gap in the 3D graphics between the uncanny valley and photorealism
Using voices from long-dead actors for new projects
Creating music, or manipulating currently released music to change singers, instruments, genres, and sound quality
Swapping heads and even entire bodies for use in another project (most famously for porn)
Editing works at a professional level, even injecting certain styles into a work that previously weren't present

And much more.

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