Concept,Definition,Category,Role in documentary
Publishing friction,"The time and effort required to research, write, record, edit, and publish content.",Content economics,Core claim
Infinite content,A condition where the marginal cost of producing additional content approaches zero.,Content economics,Core claim
AI-generated content,"Articles, images, voices, podcasts, videos, or other media produced substantially by generative AI.",Synthetic media,Core concept
AI influencers,Synthetic personas designed to resemble human creators and build audiences or commercial partnerships.,Synthetic media,Example
Synthetic media,Media generated or substantially altered by software rather than directly recorded from human activity.,Synthetic media,Core concept
Consensus bias,"The tendency of AI systems to reproduce common patterns, established advice, and average best practices.",Information quality,Interpretive claim
Content convergence,Different outputs becoming increasingly similar because they draw from the same models, patterns, and training data.,Information quality,Core claim
Model training data,Human and machine-created information used to train or refine AI systems.,AI infrastructure,Core concept
Synthetic training data,Machine-generated information used to train later AI systems.,AI infrastructure,Future risk
Model collapse,"A researched failure mode in which recursive training on generated data can degrade model performance or diversity.",AI research,Related term
Hall of mirrors effect,A metaphor for machines learning from copies of earlier machine-generated copies.,Information quality,Documentary framing
Credibility scarcity,The idea that trusted provenance becomes more valuable as information production becomes abundant.,Trust,Core thesis
Provenance,Information about who or what created a piece of content and how it was produced.,Trust,Related concept
Human-origin signal,"Evidence that content reflects direct human experience, observation, testing, or judgment.",Trust,Derived concept
Content saturation,An environment in which the volume of published media exceeds the attention available to consume it.,Content economics,Core claim
Machine-to-machine content,"Content generated by machines primarily for indexing, ranking, summarization, or ingestion by other machines.",AI web,Core question
Average best practices,Widely repeated guidance that may be useful but tends to produce undifferentiated outputs.,Information quality,Interview insight
Authenticity uncertainty,"The growing difficulty of determining whether a person, voice, image, review, or story is genuine.",Trust,Core claim
Information ecosystem,"The network of people, platforms, models, and media through which knowledge is created and circulated.",Internet,Core concept
Human-to-human connection,"Direct interaction that preserves context, empathy, multidimensionality, and social cues.",Trust,Interview insight