AI-generated slop accounts for 21% of YouTube Shorts shown to new users. Here's what this means for marketers and where your content is most protected.

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 ...

The timing couldn't be more critical. According to Gallup's latest workforce survey, AI use at work jumped from 21% in 2023 ...

A new study by Kapwing has found that 20% of YouTube videos are all AI slop — and it looks like children are the most impacted. Featured Video AI slop might seem like an urban myth, but it's more ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster recently named “slop” as its 2025 Word of the Year, citing the explosion of low-quality, AI-created digital content that now clogs all of our inboxes and social feeds. While employers ...

AI slop isn't the only issue.

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 ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

There’s no doubt that AI can deliver a plethora of benefits, but if you quickly and broadly deploy any technology regardless of context, it’ll likely result in slop.