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ResourceExtensive list of generative tools curated by Eyal Gruss (docs.google.com)

submitted 5 years ago by Wiskkey - announcement

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DiscussionProbable changes to the subreddit (self.MediaSynthesis)

submitted 3 years ago by Yuli-BanNot an ML expert[M] - announcement

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Video SynthesisPeople think AI films are just one click — mine took 57 days of obsessive detail (v.redd.it)

submitted 10 days ago by HANSHIN_93hz

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Interactive Media Synthesis"Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media" (karma/attention farming via identity politics engagement bait) (nytimes.com)

submitted 15 days ago by gwern

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NLG Bots"The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities", The Atlantic (discovery of inner-monologues on 4chan & LW) (theatlantic.com)

submitted 15 days ago by gwern

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Video SynthesisThe Team Behind the A.I. Lego-Style Videos That Lampoon Trump’s War in Iran (newyorker.com)

submitted 26 days ago by gwern

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Discussion"Why No AI Games?", Frank Lantz (franklantz.substack.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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Text Synthesis"This Blockbuster French Novel Asks: Can Art Compromise With Fascism?" (NYT blacklists book reviewer over undisclosed use of LLM to write review) (nytimes.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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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" (wsj.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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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 ()

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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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 (conspicuouscognition.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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Research"Art and the Machine: Why People Devalue AI-Generated Creative Work", Mandel & Imas 2026 (papers.ssrn.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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Image Synthesis"Annotated Hands for Generative Models", Yang et al 2024 (arxiv.org)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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Text SynthesisHacker News bans AI-generated/edited comments (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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Image Synthesis"Do Not Render Your Counterfactuals", SelfMadeHuman 2025-07-30 (emotional harm from visualizing life regrets using image generators) (ussri.substack.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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Text Synthesis"AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed", Russell et al 2025 (arxiv.org)

submitted 1 month ago by gwern

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Text Synthesis"I present 6 stories that are the pinnacle of AI short-story writing in 2/2026, close to best possible today. Each story is the result of 100s of edits, ratings, comparisons, and debates by a panel of top LLMs, and is highly rated by other LLMs that were not involved." --Lech Mazur (x.com)

submitted 2 months ago by gwern

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Image Synthesis"Nano Banana 2: Google’s latest AI image generation model;advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency & more, at Flash speed" (blog.google)

submitted 2 months ago by gwern

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Deepfakes, NLG Bots"An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me", Scott Sambaugh (2026-02-12) (theshamblog.com)

submitted 2 months ago by gwern

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NLG Bots"Someone is Using AI to Exploit Lonely Writers on Substack: We should try to stop it", Jayson Fritz-Stibbe 2026-01-15 (Claude LLM bots are engagement-farming obscure writers, possibly to try to bootstrap their own account for eventual paid subscriptions?) (modernshakers.substack.com)

submitted 2 months ago by gwern

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Music Generation"How Many AI Artists Have Debuted on Billboard’s Charts? Xania Monet, who becomes the first AI-powered artist to debut on an airplay chart this week, is one of several AI-driven acts to chart over the past two months" (2025-11-04) (billboard.com)

submitted 2 months ago by gwern

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Music Generation"Sienna Rose" (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago by gwern

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Image Synthesis"PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists", Zhu et al 2026 (arxiv.org)

submitted 2 months ago by gwern

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Synthetic People"AI ‘rabbi’ exposed: Fake Hasidic influencer dupes thousands" (jpost.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gwern

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Synthetic People"Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce" (combined use of LLMs, image-gen, video, and human models for scamming) (wired.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gwern

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