Frontiers of Synthetic Media

Undergraduate

establishes the key technical protocols of image- and text-based synthetic media, including deepfakes, text-generation, synthetic images, and synthetic data. With a focus on Canadian developments, students will examine the colonial histories of “frontiers” alongside the current moment of Frontier AI within synthetic media and discuss topics such as trust and authenticity, disinformation, and AI hallucinations. The course concludes by discussing interventions into synthetic media and the future governance of such technologies.