Episode

Is it Real or is it AI?

Podcast: Akron Mirror
Published: Jun 12, 2025
Duration seconds: 1226
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Summary

Melvin Bukiet, an author and professor at Sarah Lawrence College, and Tim Boucher, an artist based in Quebec, join Keith to talk about AI - how it can be used for unique creative pursuits, and how it can create problems for finding reliable information. To view the images created by Bukiet and Boucher’s AI project, and learn more about the fake Akron Smash Group, visit https://discover.hubpages.com/art/who-were-the-akron-smash-group Akron Mirror is a podcast from the Akron-Summit County Public Library.