Climbers asked Google Gemini how long Mount Shasta would take and what supplies to carry – things went badly wrong
Gemini estimated the climb would take eight hours, but the group needed twice that just to reach the summit
Roblox is cracking down on games that reward kids for doomscrolling
Banning the "endless TikTok clips" loop is a small fix for a platform facing much bigger scrutiny
People have clicked the "Seems like AI slop" button on LinkedIn over a million times already
The tool has been active for less than a month, alongside AI-detection classifiers
HallPass says its embarrassing AI-generated candy typos were intentional rage bait
The company admits it used AI to combine product images and left the resulting errors in on purpose
AI slop, privacy fears, and endless scrolling are making people fall out of love with the internet
A new survey reveals growing frustration with tracking, deepfakes, and time-wasting algorithms
A hot potato: Remember the days when the internet was a fun place full of memes and funny videos, and you couldn't use AI to fulfill the request, "photos or it didn't happen"? Today, many people's view of the net is becoming negative, with 50% of users expecting their data to be exposed, AI making everything hard to believe, and the web stealing too much of their time.
AI is flooding Apple with fake bug reports, and real $200K macOS exploit got lost in the noise
AI has increased the number of helpful and bogus bug reports
Winners & losers: Generative AI has become a double-edged sword for security teams. The same technology that helps uncover and fix vulnerabilities faster than ever also makes it trivially easy to flood inboxes with dubious bug reports. That tension recently pushed Apple to change its bug bounty program in a way that ended up delaying disclosure of a genuinely serious exploit.
AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models
Demand for older print books is surging as AI firms look for human-written content free from AI-generated text
Spotify is deleting millions of AI-generated music tracks to fend off spammers
A dedicated team within the company is now fighting against AI-powered audio slop
REI pulls AI-generated bike ad after Meta turns it into a two-handlebar monstrosity
AI-generated ads are getting harder to spot, unless they add handlebars to both ends of a bike
Amazon's Alexa can now generate podcasts on whatever topic you want. But, will anyone listen?
Two AI "co-hosts" cover news, sports, and more, pulling from outlets like the AP, Reuters, and Washington Post
ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers with AI slop
LLM or not, paper authors will be responsible for whatever they post to the archive
Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted
Microsoft is calling it a bug
Windows 11 will be force-updated to version 25H2 using machine learning
Microsoft is putting a lot of trust into machine learning
Microsoft halts Windows 11 update after users report installation errors
The number of issues with Windows 11 keeps growing despite Redmond's early promises
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II studio axes human translator in favor of AI
"I won't keep quiet about my experience."
Microsoft blocks the word 'Microslop' in Copilot Discord, and the server melts down
What started as spam control became a microcosm of the company's broader AI struggle
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says no one wants "sloppy" AI after urging critics to drop the term
Nadella previously asked people to move beyond the "AI slop" debate
AI browsers are about to eat the internet
The future of on-device AI might just be... Chrome
Nine out of ten DuckDuckGo users don't want AI anywhere near their search
People have spoken
Microsoft rushes out emergency updates to fix a broken Windows Patch Tuesday
Microsoft breaks Windows again
Google removes AI answers from some medical searches after experts warn of risks to users' health
Not as bad as eating glue, but still wrong and dangerous
Satya Nadella starts blogging about AI, wants to move the conversation beyond "slop"
Microsoft CEO invokes "bicycles for the mind" for the AI era
More than 20% of YouTube's feed is now "AI slop," report finds
The US ranks third in AI slop consumption and subscribers
Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "slop"
All the worthless stuff dumped on our screens, in just four letters