#AI slop
9 stories taggedAI slop.
Google's Playground Lets Anyone Build a Video Game by Typing. Here's What Actually Comes Out.
The new AI experiment from Google Labs turns a text prompt into a playable browser game in minutes. The results are real, shareable, and limited in ways that matter.
AI Image Generation Jumped From 1 Story to 6 in Our Feed. Here Is What Actually Drove It
Four separate outlets pushed the topic onto AI2Day this week. Half the stack was Google Pics. The other half was the mess these tools leave behind.
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 with AI tools, then pushing them through Facebook at scale. A Guardian cartoonist's satirical take on the trend points to a problem that's only getting cheaper to run.
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 (which we first reported on 31 July), 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 '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.