Disney has just launched a punch in a great artificial intelligence struggle

Michael Heat: So the publishing is certainly at the top of the list of industries that have been worried about the ia plagiarizing the original work and we should all know why we are all in the publishing sector. But then there is the content that is the opposite of the work weighted and made by man, and this is slop ai. The term is explained when you say it aloud, but we are talking quickly about what Slop Ai is and why it seems to be everywhere.

Lauren Goode: I can take it, but I also want to reject him in Kate, because Kate, you are the queen of Ai Slop, and I don’t mean you are generating it. I do not mean that you are part of your carrier to create personal content or as we are calling it, but you wrote a lot. The IA Slop is only low -quality artificial intelligence content, which appears online. He is proliferating our feed. It is often on social media, but it is not only on social media. Now it is handed down as legitimate, quote-unquote, “journalism”. For example, last month, the Chicago Sun-Times and Filadelphia’s Equirer had both published these special sections that recommend lists of summer readings and the list included a pile of books invented by royal authors, and these names and titles were just put together at random. Slop is not just invented stuff. I think he has some aesthetic. It is part of this growing trend of the internet’s impulse, which of course Cory Doctrow has written for Wire.com a few years ago and now they are only the term we use. It looks like a spam, sometimes it is easily recognizable and sometimes it is not.

Katie Drummond: So do you mean that the videos I see on Donald Trump’s Tiktok and Jesus Christ walking on the beach are not real?

Lauren Goode: No, those are real.

Katie Drummond: Oh, ok. Happens.

Lauren Goode: Those really happened.

Katie Drummond: Oh, ok. Because I died them everyone, because I want to see more. So those are ai. Done. All right.

Lauren Goode: Yes, exactly. The same goes for JD Vance Breakdance with Pope Leo, those are real.

Katie Drummond: Oh, I have … yes, of course.

Lauren Goode: Yes. He hasn’t killed him yet.

Michael Heat: Many of these examples are fun or fun, but then there are more serious ones. Recently there were SLOP of AI which came out of current events in the Middle East, right?

Katie Drummond: Oh, of course. Yes.

Michael Heat: And the politicians and leaders of the world will rutive these things, even knowing that they are false, just because it appeals to their sensitivity and helps them spread the message they want to spread.

Katie Drummond: Oh, I make jokes when I am stressed and discomfort, and I would say that it is incredibly uncomfortable and stressful. I think you will all agree with me that he is a journalist right now. Try to be the publisher, let me tell you. And in reality looking at the IA slop proliferate on the internet, on all these platforms, sometimes being exchanged for factual information by consumers simultaneously at this very existential moment for news and media. Once again, we are in an existential moment for news and media, in many ways due to the AI, due to the way Google is changing their research, due to other ways in which the IA is changing the way people access information. The publishers are once again essentially in the sights of all this, and to add an insult to injuries, then open Tiktok and Jesus and Donald Trump are fishing, and it is just as it is everywhere. It is as if you surround you if you are a journalist because you were experiencing the slop itself. You are seeing what he is doing at the online information panorama, and then you are banging his head against a brick wall because Google did this, that or the other with Ai panoramic panoramas, and suddenly I am inventing numbers. I am really inventing numbers, but suddenly, your research trafficking is 50%decreasing and this has existential branches for publishers. There is also this strange thing that attracted my attention and Kate, you reported on this, which is where artificial intelligence is actually as a function for some websites and actually works really well for them. So Wired discovered that over 54% of the longest English language posts on LinkedIn, everyone’s favorite social network are probably generated by artificial intelligence. Now, LinkedIn has claimed to monitor the posts to identify low quality and repetitive content, but the IA is probably really good in LinkedIn because the generic and insipid writing is a bit about what LinkedIn thrives. I think it’s interesting. It is not necessarily a good thing, but it is only another indication of how the pervasive generative IA has become online.