This week The director behind Yung Lean's viral 'Storm' video says AI imitations on social media made even good work look 'lame' B Business Insider 3d ago Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions F Futurism 7d ago This month From Substack to YouTube, here are the social platforms cracking down on AI slop B Business Insider 11d ago Top BBC Director Says He’s Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of “Doctor Who” and It’s “Pretty Good” F Futurism 24d ago The Media Show B BBC 25d ago You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell F Futurism 27d ago I used an AI detector for a month. What I found from my peers, dates, and heroes horrified me. B Business Insider 27d ago China fuels rush to turn AI video into an industry T K Covered by 2 sources 30d ago No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death? T 9 Covered by 2 sources Sep 15 AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children F Futurism Sep 15 Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down F Futurism Sep 9 Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human T E U +3 Covered by 6 sources Aug 31 Many of the Chinese bots X says posted anti-data-center content had no followers or engagement, a researcher found E B Covered by 2 sources Aug 28 The AI 'Ghosts' Contaminating Academic Publishing H Hacker News Aug 27 Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of ARCOS Labs – Interview Series U Unite.AI Aug 26 Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users T U B +1 Covered by 4 sources Aug 20 ‘Better move would be to ban it’: Apple Music steps up plan for AI-generated song labels, but some users think it doesn’t go far enough H T T Covered by 3 sources Aug 21 Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button T The Verge Aug 21 A Venture Capitalist Spent $100 Creating A Fake Sorority Girl. TikTok Didn’t Notice. F Forbes Aug 20 OpenAI Is Backing Away From Reddit as Reddit Tries to Become OpenAI? G Gizmodo Aug 18 Higgsfield raised $400mn at $5.4bn, four times its January valuation T The Next Web Aug 17 Another woman joins lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM E Engadget Aug 17 Apple in Talks to Pay Publishers for News Content to Power Siri AI H Hacker News Aug 13 Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT T The Verge Aug 12 PwC left red-faced after being caught using AI hallucinations and fake citations in multiple reports T TechRadar Aug 9 Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months T G M Covered by 3 sources Aug 6 Meta apps displayed ads that contained AI-generated CSAM E H Covered by 2 sources Aug 5 AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory W Wired Aug 5 Sam Altman’s Parenting Strategy Sounds Low Key Horrifying F Futurism Aug 3 AI slop has found politics. Fake “news” channels are flooding YouTube with tales of blue-state collapse. T The Next Web Aug 3 SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? H Hacker News Aug 3 Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives W T Covered by 2 sources Aug 2 Half of adults admit they would publish work created mainly by AI and not say so — despite believing other people should do just that T TechRadar Aug 2 Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop' T E B Covered by 3 sources Jul 31 LinkedIn to add AI slop report feature that could train better AI slop M Mashable Jul 31 Cambridge Analytica’s Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm F Futurism Jul 30 China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse T The Next Web Jul 29 Grok Creator SpaceXAI Sues Minnesota AG to Stop Ban on Nudification G Gizmodo Jul 29 The AI that took their jobs is now renting their faces, for $15 T The Next Web Jul 28 YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos T G Covered by 2 sources Jul 20 Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name F Futurism Jul 12 A Study Tried to Quantify How Many LinkedIn Posts Are 100% AI. It’s a Lot G Gizmodo Jul 12 CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop F Futurism Jul 1 Kobo rejected 45% of self-published books last year, mostly over AI T The Next Web Jun 26 Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds T The Next Web Jun 21 Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy T The Guardian Jun 20 A German court says Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words, and it’s liable when they’re false T The Next Web Jun 10 A uni professor admitted using AI to write an opinion piece. Here’s what it revealed about trust in the technology T The Guardian Jun 5 What does the UK watchdog’s new Google AI results rule mean for publishers? T T Covered by 2 sources Jun 3 ‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history T The Guardian May 26 ‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize T The Guardian May 19 Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia | Niamh McIntyre T The Guardian May 19 Vine video-sharing app is back – and battling AI slop T The Guardian May 4 More Than a Third of All New Podcasts Are AI-Generated G Gizmodo May 3 The ‘Anti-Grammarly’ Helps People Hide Their Participation in the AI Slop Era G Gizmodo Apr 25 Chinese Netflix Competitor Opens Floodgates to AI Slop F Futurism Apr 24 Trump Is Inflicting Massive Damage to His Public Image by Posting Offensive AI Slop F Futurism Apr 14 Could AI write this column? In a world of slop-inion, I’m certifying myself human | Peter Lewis T The Guardian Apr 14 AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class F Futurism Apr 4 The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era T TechCrunch Apr 3 Showing the 60 most recent of 74 stories on AI Generated Content