The modern web is filling up with machine-written text, synthetic images, and auto-generated video that look plausible at a glance but collapse under scrutiny. What began as a clever way to draft ...

Everyone's a coder now, thanks to AI. But more code means more bugs, more vulnerabilities, and not enough engineers to catch them.

A coalition of organizations and experts penned a letter to Google and YouTube CEOs, demanding action.

OpenAI’s celebrated AI video creation tool has been terminated. I think the reason is that everybody is fed up with AI slop.

The most basic issue with this approach is that people are not good at spotting AI-generated content, and the gap between human detection and AI capability is widening fast. Early AI content had ...

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 ...

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 ...

None of this rubbish could survive a critique from a 2-year-old child. The sheer lack of focus and off-topic drift is easily ...

When Merriam-Webster announced that its 2025 Word of the Year was "slop," it made a disturbing amount of sense -- at least from the perspective of someone (me) who reports on the ins and outs of ...