{"id":235296,"date":"2025-10-23T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235296\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:59:14","slug":"ai-slop-is-the-internet-about-to-get-even-worse-podcast-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235296\/","title":{"rendered":"AI slop: Is the internet about to get even worse? \u2013 podcast | Artificial intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Last month, in the same week, two tech giants launched apps based around AI-generated videos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker analyses OpenAI\u2019s Sora 2 and Meta\u2019s Vibes, the wider rise of this type of video, and its one pervading aesthetic: AI slop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He tells Lucy Hough about this kind of surreal content \u2013 giraffes driving away from the police, Stephen Hawking memes, Sam Altman being chased by a group of nuns \u2013 and about how much AI-generated video has improved in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> now sharing fake videos to his millions of followers, what does the rise of AI slop mean for our politics and beyond?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture 82\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2879.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356.12365404654395\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Illustration: youtube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, in the same week, two tech giants launched apps based around AI-generated videos. The tech journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-235296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}