The modern web is filling up with machine-written text, synthetic images, and auto-generated video that look plausible at a glance but collapse under scrutiny. What began as a clever way to draft ...

AI-generated slop accounts for 21% of YouTube Shorts shown to new users. Here's what this means for marketers and where your ...

Hundreds joined the march in London’s AI hub to warn against the harms that artificial intelligence could bring. I went along ...

Merriam-Webster recently named “slop” as its 2025 Word of the Year, citing the explosion of low-quality, AI-created digital content that now clogs all of our inboxes and social feeds. While employers ...

If you want fewer cartoonish videos of dead celebrities, creepy or absurd images or fake bands playing synthetic tunes, a few platforms have rolled out settings and features to help minimize ...

AI slop isn't the only issue.

Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate discovery, but a growing number of researchers say it is flooding science with junk. Instead of careful experiments and hard-won insights, they ...

In a policy change, it requires contributors to understand the code they commit. The question, though, is how to determine that. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Thursday changed its policies ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

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