Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop
For five years, Caitlyn Jones has used Pinterest on a weekly basis to find recipes for her son. In September, Jones spotted a creamy chicken and broccoli slow-cooker recipe, sprinkled with…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love AI slop
@digitalpersons AI video technology is evolving so quickly that even for creative professionals, there is a lot to experiment with. Daryl Anselmo, a creative director turned digital…
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The Year in Slop
2025 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine intelligence, gauges the point at which a…
Surprise, surprise: People don’t want AI slop on ‘SNL’
Across the internet, eagle-eyed sleuths are crying “AI slop” after Saturday Night Live aired segments with what looks like AI-generated imagery. The first instance, from Saturday’s cold…
How ‘slop’ became the defining word of 2025
It’s official: 2025 was the year of slop. Merriam-Webster just announced in a post that its “human editors” have chosen “slop” as the 2025 Word of the Year. The dictionary’s official…
AI advertising slop is on the rise. The cure? The STFU brand strategy
There’s a statistic that’s been making the rounds for the better part of a decade that says the average person is exposed to about 10,000 ads every day. This has always sounded a tad…
From ‘AI slop’ to ‘rage bait’: 2025’s words of the year represent digital disillusionment
Which terms best represent 2025? Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English select a word of the…
The Download: AI and the economy, and slop for the masses
There's a lot at stake when it comes to understanding how AI is changing the economy right now. Should we be pessimistic? Optimistic? Or is the situation too nuanced for that? Hopefully,…
The AI Hype Index: The people can’t get enough of AI slop
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of…
The Man Who Makes AI Slop by Hand
Mu is not the only comedian who has tried to imitate the style of AI-generated videos, but he really nails all of the elements: The clumsy bodily movements, the spaced-out facial…
Contributor: The web is awash in AI slop. Real content is for subscribers only, and democracy suffers
Princess Diana stumbling through a parkour park. Team USA taking gold at the Bong Olympics. Tank Man breakdancing in Tiananmen Square. Kurt Cobain playing pogs. Tupac Shakur seeking…
Trump’s video response to the ‘No Kings’ protest shows how comfortable he and Vance are with AI slop
President Donald Trump responded to this weekend’s massive ‘No Kings’ protests with an AI-generated video of him in a fighter jet, dropping what appears to be sewage (or poop) on American…
Toonstar’s new ‘Uncle Roger’ cartoon embraces AI—but slop it’s not
“The gyoza needs to look a little whiter. It’s too pink.” Nigel Ng is genially micromanaging the look and feel of Fried, an animated series that will premiere on YouTube later this year.…
From slop to Sotheby’s? AI art enters a new phase
One of the most conspicuous features of generative AI tools is their accessibility. With no training and in very little time, you can create an image of whatever you can imagine in…
Pinterest now lets you dial down the AI slop as human-powered social media faces an existential moment
As we scroll through our feeds, it’s not unusual to stumble upon AI-generated slop—the kind of empty, nonsensical content that’s unmistakably artificial. You click on one, and before you…
JD Vance Tries to Explain “Joke” in Trump’s AI Slop Video of Jeffries
Shortly after, Vance circled back to “the sombrero thing,” saying, “Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist. And I know that he said that, and I honestly don’t even honestly know what that…
Fake Holocaust AI slop is flooding social media
A post circulating on Facebook shows a man named Henek, a violinist allegedly forced to play in the concentration camp’s orchestra at Auschwitz. “His role: to play music as fellow…
Enjoy ‘AI slop’ summer. What’s coming next is worse
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. “AI Slop”…
“Should Be Junked”: RFK Jr.’s Bogus MAHA Report Is Just AI Slop
Since then, the administration has been very quiet about these efforts, increasing suspicion. Meanwhile, Palantir has taken more than $113 million in government spending since Trump took…
Trump Is the Emperor of A.I. Slop
On February 19th, Donald Trump logged onto Truth Social to congratulate himself on vanquishing congestion pricing in his home state. “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD,” he posted. “Manhattan,…