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The age of synthetic media has begun

As DALL-E opens to the public, will the bigger AI risk come from images — or from text?

Casey Newton
Sep 30
“A man drowning in an ocean made of words, digital art” / DALL-E

Today, let’s talk about some genuine advancements in the field of artificial intelligence that herald the arrival of a new age of ubiquitous synthetic media — and why the current conversation around risks might be weighted toward the wrong things.

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On Thursday Meta showed off Make-a-Video,…

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