The internet has always had a noise problem. Spam emails, clickbait headlines, content farms, recycled listicles. The crap ...

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 poutine in Costco.

AI slop is undeniably rampant in today's online world, and the internet is seeing an abundance of low-quality, nonsensical AI-generated content that has led many to become increasingly frustrated with ...

"The trust relationship users have with their social media feeds is changing, and the news organizations that lay out their best welcome mat stand to gain." ...

Google Gemini can now detect AI-generated videos using SynthID. While great, there are still plenty of limitations to this approach.

"Now, not only are publishers battling ever-changing algorithms for visibility, they're directly competing with an ...

Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a background as a systems librarian in software development, she brings a unique perspective to her reporting. Having lived ...

Darrell Heaps is founder & chief strategy officer of Q4, helping companies use AI to improve investor relations workflows and results. Picture this: You find yourself with a 2.5-hour, meeting-free ...

SLOP—shorthand for synthetic, low-quality, overproduced content—has become the catchall for the flood of AI-generated media saturating our feeds. It’s easy to think of SLOP as just a volume problem; ...

Finding love is hard. For a while, dating apps seemed to make it easier, putting a city’s worth of single people in the palm of your hand. But AI has cast a paranoid pall over what can already be a ...

Has your favorite streaming series turned into a disastrous mess? Have you watched season after season as the writing devolves until nothing you’re watching makes sense anymore? Blame the Slop Eaters.