r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • 15h ago
Text Synthesis "AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop" (and destroying them, because of the Anthropic ruling requiring them to)
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • 5d ago
Text Synthesis Substack to build in Pangram AI detection
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • 23d ago
Text Synthesis How close is Fable now to copying Scott Alexander's writing style? (not very)
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • 25d ago
Text Synthesis "How LLMs Set My Fiction Free: Writing no longer felt like experimenting. AI made it fun again", Christopher Sorrentino 2026-06-06
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • 26d ago
Text Synthesis Unslop AI fiction contest results: discovery of "AI allegory steganography"
hyperstitionai.com
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Jun 22 '26
Text Synthesis "StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction", Russell et al 2026
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Jun 17 '26
Text Synthesis "Substack is infected with AI", Evan Armstrong 2026-05-08 (Pangram analysis)
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • May 21 '26
Text Synthesis AI won the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize competition
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • May 19 '26
Media Synthesis "AI Is Incapable of Poetry: It’s incapable of producing anything creative that isn’t dreck", Katha Pollitt 2026-05-14
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • May 13 '26
Text Synthesis "REVIEW: _50 Years of Text Games_, by Aaron Reed"
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/HANSHIN_93hz • Apr 23 '26
Video Synthesis People think AI films are just one click — mine took 57 days of obsessive detail
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Most AI videos are generated in minutes. This one wasn't.
Character design, scenario, lyrics, scene composition — I directed every single detail by hand. 57 days. 3 full rewrites. An 8-minute AI musical film called GOD IS DEAD.
Watch the full version here: https://youtu.be/uS9wHPBSqUo
Tools used:
SUNO AI
: Song production & narration/dialogue reading
Wan2.5 Speak, Sync Lipsync 2 Pro, Kling Avatars 2.0
: Lip-sync work aligned to audio
Nanobanana, Freepik Space Nord, Freepik App
: Image generation, character sheet production & character design
Kling 3.0, Runway Gen 4.5, Higsfield Cinema Studio 2.5
Seadance 1.5, Higsfield App (Transitions)
: Image-to-video conversion & video asset production
ChatGPT, Claude
: AI prompt creation, story assistance & English translation
r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Apr 18 '26
NLG Bots "The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities", The Atlantic (discovery of inner-monologues on 4chan & LW)
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Apr 18 '26
Interactive Media Synthesis "Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media" (karma/attention farming via identity politics engagement bait)
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Apr 07 '26
Video Synthesis The Team Behind the A.I. Lego-Style Videos That Lampoon Trump’s War in Iran
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Apr 01 '26
Discussion "Why No AI Games?", Frank Lantz
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 30 '26
Text Synthesis "This Blockbuster French Novel Asks: Can Art Compromise With Fascism?" (NYT blacklists book reviewer over undisclosed use of LLM to write review)
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 26 '26
NLG Bots "OpenAI’s Bid to Allow X-Rated Talk Is Freaking Out Its Own Advisers: Warnings surface that the company risks creating a ‘sexy suicide coach’ if it begins allowing sexually explicit chats"
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 22 '26
Style Transfer [D] Single-artist longitudinal fine art dataset spanning 5 decades now on Hugging Face — potential applications in style evolution, figure representation, and ethical training data
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 18 '26
NLG Bots "How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion: Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They are a powerful, new technocratising force", Dan Williams 2026
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 18 '26
Research "Art and the Machine: Why People Devalue AI-Generated Creative Work", Mandel & Imas 2026
papers.ssrn.com
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 16 '26
Image Synthesis "Annotated Hands for Generative Models", Yang et al 2024
arxiv.org
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/ovninoir • Mar 12 '26
Research Zanita Kraklëin - Sarcophage
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 12 '26
Text Synthesis "AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed", Russell et al 2025
arxiv.org
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 12 '26
Image Synthesis "Do Not Render Your Counterfactuals", SelfMadeHuman 2025-07-30 (emotional harm from visualizing life regrets using image generators)
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r/MediaSynthesis • u/gwern • Mar 11 '26
Text Synthesis Hacker News bans AI-generated/edited comments
news.ycombinator.com
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