AI in media

Media is a broad term covering the channels through which information and culture are produced and distributed, including news, film, television, music, advertising, and online platforms. Artificial intelligence now touches each of these areas, but the topics are large enough that this wiki treats them in separate, more detailed articles. This page is a guide to that coverage.

News and journalism

The use of AI in news gathering, automated reporting, fact-checking, copyright disputes, and newsroom policy is covered in AI in journalism.

Film, television, music, and games

The role of AI in visual effects, voice synthesis and dubbing, music generation, video games, streaming recommendation, and the related labor and copyright disputes is covered in AI in entertainment.

Social platforms

Recommender systems, generative features inside apps, AI-generated influencers, deepfakes, content moderation, and provenance labelling on social networks are covered in Social Media.

Advertising and marketing

Programmatic advertising, audience targeting, automated ad creative, and the measurement of marketing activity are covered in AI in marketing.

Cross-cutting topics

Several techniques and issues recur across media types and have their own articles, including generative AI, deepfake media, voice cloning, recommendation systems, and synthetic media.

References

1. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, "Generative AI and News Report 2025." https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/generative-ai-and-news-report-2025-how-people-think-about-ais-role-journalism-and-society Accessed 2026-05-31.