{"id":141154,"date":"2025-09-08T07:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141154\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:15:06","slug":"how-ai-slop-is-clogging-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141154\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI slop is clogging your brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre videos, uncanny photos, and Luigi Mangoine&#8217;s likeness on Shein&#8230;? AI slop is taking over the web. It&#8217;s putting money in people&#8217;s pockets, and driving them offline, too. <\/p>\n<p>This is AI + U. Each Monday this month, Brittany is exploring how you are already seeing the impacts of AI. Artificial Intelligence has become a constant in ways we can and can&#8217;t see&#8230;and for the next few weeks we&#8217;re zeroing in on how AI affects our daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>Brittany chats with Washington Post tech reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/drew-harwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drew Harwell<\/a> and freelance writer <a href=\"https:\/\/emmamarris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emma Marris<\/a> about the limits of AI creativity and what this &#8216;slop&#8217; is doing to us on and offline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bizarre videos, uncanny photos, and Luigi Mangoine&#8217;s likeness on Shein&#8230;? AI slop is taking over the web. It&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-141154","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-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}