AI slop
AI slop
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Dec 17, 2025
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26 min read
Elon Musk is this year’s King of Digital Deception
And some more serious findings – including a great reading list – from our survey of 53 experts
AI slop
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Dec 15, 2025
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23 min read
35 notable AI fails from 2025
Just because it’s "intelligent" doesn’t mean it’s always right
AI slop
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Oct 3, 2025
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12 min read
Briefing: Sloppy Sora surges on the charts
Plus: changes to Facebook search that you need to know about
AI slop
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Sep 24, 2025
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3 min read
This podcast company went all in on AI. It shows.
Inception Point AI wants to commodify audio AI slop with “How to Earlobe Kiss” and 4,748 other shows
AI slop
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Sep 12, 2025
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13 min read
Briefing: “The brakes are completely off at Meta”
Plus: A tool for YouTube and Joe Rogan doubles down after falling for an AI-generated image
AI slop
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Sep 5, 2025
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9 min read
Briefing: Australia moves to ban nudifiers and approaches for verifying AI images
Plus: chatbots are providing inaccurate info, are susceptible to flattery and peer pressure
AI slop
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Aug 29, 2025
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9 min read
Briefing: AI comes for fashion and a tool for guessing email addresses
Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation
AI slop
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Aug 21, 2025
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2 min read
Celebrity slop: Hoax pages thrive under Meta’s relaxed moderation
Indicator identified more than 100 foreign-run Facebook pages that use AI to spread false claims about celebs like Stephen Colbert, Caitlin Clark and others
AI slop
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Aug 13, 2025
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2 min read
Dozens of TikTok accounts use AI avatars of real journalists to spread fake news
The platform’s Spanish-language misinformation problem led me to a Brazilian marketplace for monetized TikTok accounts
AI slop
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Aug 8, 2025
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9 min read
Briefing: More AI nudifier ads on Meta and two new investigation guides
Plus: AI-generated Jorge Ramos is spreading false claims about Donald Trump's health on TikTok
AI slop
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Aug 1, 2025
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9 min read
Briefing: TikTok crowdsources moderation and tools for searching YouTube and Google
Plus: humans suck at spotting AI-generated images
AI slop
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Jul 25, 2025
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10 min read
Briefing: A new tool for detecting AI images, the Macrons sue Candace Owens and more
Plus: AI is ushering in a global fraud crisis and new research about YouTube and ChatGPT
AI slop
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Jul 16, 2025
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3 min read
A tentative taxonomy of AI slop
Slop is everywhere, but not all of it is the same
AI slop
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Jun 20, 2025
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14 min read
Briefing: Elon Musk's rare Community Notes and AI slop everywhere
Your must reads and must tries on the digital deception beat this week
AI slop
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Jun 18, 2025
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2 min read
Diddy AI slop is getting tens of millions of views on YouTube
Indicator found 26 channels spreading false claims about the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs via AI-generated thumbnails and video content
AI slop
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Jun 11, 2025
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2 min read
Amazon is selling hundreds of seemingly AI-generated biographies for children
Gather around kids, time to to learn about “Genshis Khan” from a “whiite lady”
AI slop
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Feb 26, 2025
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15 min read
Why is Musk mad about Community Notes?
Musk says Community Notes are "being gamed"; AI slop is the lure for a scam operation; and TikTok videos kill Pope Francis.
AI slop
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Feb 12, 2025
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14 min read
Musk & Trump AI motivational slopaganda got 700 million TikTok views
Deepfake Trump and Musk motivational clips reach millions on TikTok; Gemini helped me create a pump and dump campaign; and the BBC finds serious problems with AI chatbot summaries of its articles.
AI slop
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Jan 22, 2025
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13 min read
Deepfake labels and detectors still don't work
Catholic page uses Google to spread unlabeled AI slop on Meta, Deepfake image detectors flop basic test, and Kent Walker thinks crowd-checking on YouTube shows potential
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Dec 4, 2024
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16 min read
Elon Musk is a magnet as well as a megaphone for misinformation
racking the Tesla Phone hoax across platforms, majorities around the world think platforms should moderate false content, and BlueSky starts banning dupes
AI slop
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Nov 27, 2024
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14 min read
44 of the top 100 Bluesky accounts have a duplicate
BlueSky has a doppelgänger problem, World War III narrative leans on a fake cover of The Economist, and Instagram is flooded with cozycore AI slop
AI slop
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Oct 23, 2024
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16 min read
A network of Catholic pages uses AI slop to grow its reach
Plus: Alexa flips the meaning of fact checks, and the Pentagon shops for deepfakes.
