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LinkedIn's 'AI Slop' Button Has Been Clicked Over a Million Times
The platform says views on posts flagged as AI-generated have dropped 40 percent in just a few weeks, as users take the fight against filler content into their own hands.

AI-Generated Far-Right Memes Are Flooding Facebook. Here Is How the Machine Works.
Automated accounts are mass-producing politically charged images and text using AI tools, then pushing them through Facebook at scale. A Guardian cartoonist's satirical take on the trend points to a real and growing problem.

ICE Has Taken DNA From Nearly a Million People This Year, Including Young Children
A WIRED investigation reveals the agency's DNA dragnet now feeds an FBI database indefinitely. Plus: Google Earth's AI backfire, a secret White House cybersecurity plan, and a SpaceX rocket that quietly hit the moon.

AI moderation tools are removing decade-old Reddit posts, and that's a warning for all social media
A flood of automated deletions inside one of Reddit's most respected communities shows what happens when platforms fight AI-generated junk with more AI, and why the real cost lands on the people who built those communities.

Snapchat stops rewarding fully AI-generated videos on Spotlight
The platform will no longer surface purely AI-made videos in its Spotlight recommendations, though creators can still use AI tools to edit their own footage.

LinkedIn adds a 'Report AI Slop' button as fake-sounding posts take over the feed
Four in ten long LinkedIn posts may already be fully AI-written. Now the platform is letting users flag them and quietly reworking the tools that created the problem in the first place.

LinkedIn adds a 'seems like AI slop' button so users can flag fake-sounding posts
The Microsoft-owned professional network is blocking hundreds of thousands of automated comments a day and scrapping its own AI writing tool, because its members want to hear from real people, not bots.

Christopher Nolan Says AI Is a Trojan Horse Everyone Can Already See Through
The director of 'The Odyssey' argues public suspicion of AI, especially among young people, is healthy and exactly what the technology deserves.