Why do you consider this synthetic media?
When talking about synthetic media, the first thing popped into my head is this instagram celebrity, Lil Miquela, who was "born" in 2016 and has 3 million followers as of today.
She can be counted into basically every branches of synthetic media include: image synthesis, audio synthesis, music generation, speech synthesis, and interactive media synthesis. There is no better example than this that combined marketing, art and entertainment all together to demonstrate what synthetic media is. Aside of being instagram influencer, she is also a model who has cooperated with lot of famous brands, featured on magazine covers and even have songs on spotify!
What can we find about how this was made? If it’s machine learning based can we find information about the data set used to train it?
Lil Miquela as a computer-generated imagery (CGI) character requires studies of both static and dynamic images. Her success consists work from Computer Graphics (CG) production and Visual Effects (VFX) composition.
What are the ethical ramifications of Lil Miquela?
By just scrolling Lil Miquela's instagram account, we can find there are a lot ethical ramifications that worth a long discussion.
She is a physically perfect women made of pixels, standing in for women who have long been pressured to become physically perfect, without the advantage of that even being possible.
When something is designed to take more from us than give back, we encounter trouble. When we close Instagram feeling worse, not better, after exploring Miquela’s life, we hurt ourselves.
As a CGI character, who is also entitled as a model and singer, who can work 365 days per year non-stop, taken over other real human beings work.
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