{"id":861289,"date":"2026-08-19T22:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/861289\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:08:19","slug":"nobel-prize-winner-maria-ressas-crusade-to-hold-back-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/861289\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel prize-winner Maria Ressa\u2019s crusade to hold back AI slop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 20, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks before the US midterm elections in November, Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa has a book coming out. It will be a step-by-step guide for citizens of the world to fight back against dictators \u2013 including the tech titans flourishing under the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years ago, we looked up to these people. They were visionaries, right? But it turns out there weren\u2019t. Their AI business model that\u2019s generated tremendous amounts of money is now dictating where all of humanity is going to go,\u201d Ressa says, about ready to jump through the computer screen in her eagerness to make her point.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 20, 2026 \u2013 5.00am A few weeks before the US midterm elections in November, Nobel Prize-winning journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-861289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861289","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=861289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}