AI slop

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

35 notable AI fails from 2025

Just because it’s "intelligent" doesn’t mean it’s always right

Briefing: Sloppy Sora surges on the charts

Plus: changes to Facebook search that you need to know about

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

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

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

Briefing: AI comes for fashion and a tool for guessing email addresses

Plus: The game that helps inoculate people against vaccine misinformation

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

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

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

Briefing: TikTok crowdsources moderation and tools for searching YouTube and Google

Plus: humans suck at spotting AI-generated images

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

A tentative taxonomy of AI slop

Slop is everywhere, but not all of it is the same

Briefing: Elon Musk's rare Community Notes and AI slop everywhere

Your must reads and must tries on the digital deception beat this week

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

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”

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Google reimagines deceptive photo editing

The Pixel 9's Reimagine feature is a disinfo delight. Plus: Facebook's AI single parent cops drive a content farm and Telegram's channels for undresser apps reach hundreds of thousands

Welcome to Instagram's blended unreality

Instagram's army of AI thirst traps represent a new blended unreality. Plus: Wikipedia is a battlefield in Brazil, and the Harris campaign co-opts media credibility

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