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AI slop is a catchy name, and it’s pretty descriptive. It’s slop, meaning low-quality stuff, and it’s made by AI. You’ve likely seen AI slop images in your feeds, whether you’ve realized it or not.
But the term encompasses more than just weird images. All manner of content, from text to video, can be AI slop. Type in a few sentences and generative AI systems can spit out fake musical groups, complete with albums, music videos and written back stories. Some AI slop is obvious, but some can escape notice at a glance. And the stuff is rapidly expanding – a digital plague.
Quinnipiac University technologist Adam Nemeroff breaks down the different forms of AI slop, lays out the harms, and offers a few tips for curtailing the dreck filling the internet.
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Adam Nemeroff, Quinnipiac University
AI slop refers to low- to mid-quality content created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy or quality.
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Leo S. Lo, University of Virginia
AI systems’ water usage can vary widely, depending on where and when the computer answering the query is running.
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Timothy Koskie, University of Sydney
YouTube was found to have used AI to edit videos without creators’ consent. And it’s not the first time a media company has done this.
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Robert Turnbull, The University of Melbourne; Joanne Birch, The University of Melbourne
Advances in imaging, text recognition and machine learning are transforming what can be done with collections of plants and fungi in herbaria and museums globally.
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Alexander Richter, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Ishara Sudeeptha, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
As AI becomes part of everyday life, students showed how we can partner with the technology, rather than worry about it taking over jobs.
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