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Many very young children are already being fed so-called slop on YouTube.

Wading through a sea of low-quality, AI-generated content on platforms like YouTube, Reddit, or TikTok can turn off consumers ...

One in five Shorts that YouTube recommends to new users is low-quality, mass-produced AI-generated video, often described as “AI slop.” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan used that label himself in his January ...

Merriam-Webster recently named “slop” as its 2025 Word of the Year, citing the explosion of low-quality, AI-created digital content that now clogs all of our inboxes and social feeds. While employers ...

If you want fewer cartoonish videos of dead celebrities, creepy or absurd images or fake bands playing synthetic tunes, a few platforms have rolled out settings and features to help minimize ...

Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate discovery, but a growing number of researchers say it is flooding science with junk. Instead of careful experiments and hard-won insights, they ...

In a policy change, it requires contributors to understand the code they commit. The question, though, is how to determine that. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Thursday changed its policies ...

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