Artificial intelligence
🎨 AI Image, Video and Voice Generation
How AI image, video, voice and music generators work, what they cost, where they fail, how labels and provenance data work, and what the law says about deepfakes and copyright.
- 1How Image Generators Work in PracticeWhat diffusion does, why prompts are followed loosely, what seeds and aspect ratios control, and which image tools lead as of October 2026.16 min
- 2How Image Prompts Steer the PictureWhat subject, setting, style, light and composition each do to an AI image, why text in images breaks, how negative prompts work where a tool supports them, and how frame size shapes ImageStudio's three outputs.15 min
- 3Editing, Consistency and UpscalingHow inpainting fixes part of an image, how outpainting extends it, how reference images keep a character or style the same across a series, and why upscaling invents detail.15 min
- 4AI Images in News and Advocacy: Illustration versus EvidenceWhere illustration ends and evidence begins, how labels on AI work travel or get lost, why real people are off limits, and what C2PA Content Credentials and SynthID-style watermarks can and cannot prove.16 min
- 5AI Video Generation: Tools, Costs and LimitsWhat text-to-video and image-to-video tools can do as of October 2026, what clips cost and how long they run, where they fail, and why finished pieces are assembled from short shots on a timeline.18 min
- 6AI Voice and MusicHow text to speech, voice design and voice cloning work, what consent cloning requires, what Dialogue Editor and MusicStudio do, how AI music licensing changed, and how synthetic audio gets disclosed.16 min
- 7Deepfakes and the LawWhat Idaho's synthetic media election law requires, what the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act made a crime and requires of platforms, Idaho's explicit synthetic media crime, and the AI labeling rules on YouTube, TikTok and Meta, all as of October 2026.17 min
- 8Copyright of AI Output and Tool LicensingWhy purely AI-generated material is not protected by U.S. copyright, how human selection, arrangement and editing can be, what Thaler v. Perlmutter settled, and what the main tools' terms say about ownership and commercial use.15 min
- 9Worked Case: Anatomy of a 30-Second AI-Assisted ExplainerHow one residents' group built a labeled 30-second vertical explainer from facts to export, where AI did the work and where it was kept out, and how the disclosure, captions and project log held it together.22 min