Abstract

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has rapidly emerged with the capability to generate different forms of content, including text, images, videos, and other modalities, which can achieve a quality similar to content created by humans. As a result, AIGC is now widely applied across various domains such as digital marketing, education, and public health, and has shown promising results by enhancing content creation efficiency and improving information delivery. However, there are few studies that explore the latest progress and emerging challenges of AIGC across different domains. To bridge this gap, this paper brings together 16 scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a cross-domain perspective on the trends and challenges of AIGC. Specifically, the contributions of this paper are threefold: (1) It first provides a broader overview of AIGC, spanning the training techniques of Generative AI, detection methods, and both the spread and use of AI-generated content across digital platforms. (2) It then introduces the societal impacts of AIGC across diverse domains, along with a review of existing methods employed in these contexts. (3) Finally, it discusses the key technical challenges and presents research propositions to guide future work. Through these contributions, this vision paper seeks to offer readers a cross-domain perspective on AIGC, providing insights into its current research trends, ongoing challenges, and future directions.

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

11-25-2025

Volume

330

Publication Title

Knowledge Based Systems

Publisher

Elsevier

School

School of Business and Law

RAS ID

84453

Funders

Australian Research Council / Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2025JC-YBMS-673) / Tower Research Capital Market

Grant Number

ARC Number : DP240101591

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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Li, J., Qu, L., Cai, T., Zhao, Z., Haldar, N. a. H., Krishna, A., Kong, X., Macau, F. R., Chakraborty, T., Deroy, A., Lin, B., Blackmore, K., Noman, N., Cheng, J., Cui, N., & Xu, J. (2025). AI-generated content in cross-domain applications: Research trends, challenges and propositions. Knowledge-Based Systems, 330, 114634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2025.114634

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10.1016/j.knosys.2025.114634