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Synthetic media & digital replicas · Specialist

Synthetic media

ELI5

Images, audio, video or text largely generated or altered by computational systems.

Used in conversation

“The team needs to address the synthetic media before using the tool or material.”

Definition

Images, audio, video or text substantially generated or altered by computational systems.

Here “Synthetic media” means: Images, audio, video or text substantially generated or altered by computational systems.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Synthetic media” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Connected terms

  • DeepfakeSynthetic media is the broad category of machine-generated or altered media; a deepfake imitates a real person or event convincingly enough to mislead.
Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.