aceuse of generative AI including LLMs and diffusion models for content creation in creative industries
Source article: Advances in artificial intelligence: a review for the creative industries
Artificial intelligence (AI) has undergone transformative advances since 2022, particularly through generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and diffusion models, fundamentally reshaping the creative industries. However, existing reviews have not comprehensively addressed these recent breakthroughs and their integrated impact across the creative production pipeline. This paper addresses this gap by providing a systematic review of AI technologies that have emerged or matured since our 2022 review, examining…
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Published January 24, 2026, this systematic review examines AI advances since 2022, particularly generative AI, LLMs, and diffusion models, and their application across the creative production pipeline from creation to compression and quality assessment.
It matters because it shows AI moving from auxiliary support to central creative infrastructure, raising practical stakes for creators and studios, while uncertainty remains around copyright, bias, compute costs, hallucinations, and what regulatory frameworks will govern deployment.
- Review covers AI technologies that emerged or matured since 2022, including transformers, LLMs, diffusion models, and implicit neural representations.
- Documents trend toward unified AI frameworks that integrate multiple creative tasks, replacing task-specific solutions across content creation, information analysis, post-production enhancement, compression, and quality assessment.
- Analyzes evolving human-AI collaboration model where human oversight remains essential for creative direction.
Since 2022, transformers, LLMs, diffusion models and implicit neural representations have established new capabilities in text-to-image/video generation and real-time 3D reconstruction, shifting AI from support tool to core creative technology in the creative industries.
In creative applications, AI hallucinations require essential human oversight for creative direction, alongside emerging challenges of copyright concerns, bias mitigation, high computational demands, and lack of robust regulatory frameworks.
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The paper systematically reviews AI since the authors' 2022 review, focusing on content creation, information analysis, post-production enhancement, compression, and quality assessment.
It identifies a shift from task-specific solutions to unified multi-task frameworks that integrate multiple creative tasks using transformers and implicit neural representations.
Human oversight remains essential to provide creative direction and mitigate hallucinations, with unresolved challenges around copyright, bias, computational demands, and regulation.
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- Peer-reviewedArtificial Intelligence Review2026-01-24
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