Authenticity in the Age of Synthetic Content – Trust, Fandom & Credibility After Generative AI

Key Questions

• How do players and audiences recognize authenticity in games and game communities today?
• Can fandom survive a culture of synthetic voices, faces, and content?
• What happens to fandom when voices, faces, and styles can be synthetically reproduced at scale?
• Where are the limits of AI when it comes to trust, credibility, and emotional connection?
• How do game communities react when the “human” behind a voice, avatar, or creation becomes uncertain?
• Do we need new labels, shared ethics, or cultural norms to signal authenticity in synthetic spaces?
• Who carries responsibility when authenticity becomes ambiguous: creators, platforms, or audiences?

This session is part of the program special ON SCREEN and was curated by Games Ground.