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AI for communications teams

Generated media, provenance, and the difference between a model being wrong and a person lying.

10 terms · about 18 minutes · written with communications teams in mind

Start with Generative AI

  1. Generative AI

    A type of AI that produces new content such as text, images, audio or video from patterns learned from many examples.

    AI Foundations · Starter

  2. Text generation

    A system produces new written words from a prompt, patterning its output on examples seen during training.

    Generative Media · Starter

  3. Image generation

    Software can create new pictures from prompts or other inputs by learning visual patterns from many examples, then producing a fresh image rather than retrieving one file.

    Generative Media · Starter

  4. Deepfake

    A deepfake is an AI-generated or heavily altered image, audio clip or video that convincingly imitates an identifiable real person, usually in a recording or event that did not happen as shown.

    Generative Media · Starter

  5. Synthetic media

    Synthetic media is text, images, audio or video generated or substantially altered by software, often AI, so it can resemble authentic material.

    Generative Media · Starter

  6. Watermarking and content provenance

    Content provenance records claims about origin and edits, while watermarking embeds a detectable signal that may indicate a source or how media was made.

    Generative Media · Intermediate

  7. Misinformation and disinformation

    False or misleading content can spread by mistake or on purpose, and the difference matters because intent changes how we respond.

    Generative Media · Starter

  8. Hallucination

    A generated answer that sounds plausible but includes false, unsupported or invented details.

    Large Language Models · Starter

  9. Citation (in AI answers)

    A citation in an AI answer points you to a source passage or document intended to support a specific claim.

    Search, Embeddings and RAG · Starter

  10. Accessibility

    Designing tools, content and services so people with different disabilities can use them effectively, safely and with dignity.

    Responsible AI, Human Rights and Safety · Starter