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Software can create or transform images, video, and audio that resemble recordings of real events. A voice can sound familiar, and a realistic scene can depict something that never happened.
Synthetic media is media created or substantially altered through computational generation. Generative AI is one way to produce it. Synthetic material can be used openly for art, illustration, accessibility, entertainment, and many other purposes.
The media-literacy question is how the material is being presented and what it is being used to establish. A labeled illustration and a fabricated recording offered as evidence of a real event require different interpretations.