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AI slop: Is the internet about to get even worse? – podcast

Media | The Guardian · Presented by Lucy Hough with Chris Stokel-Walker; produced by Alex Atack and Brian McNamara; executive producer Sami Kent · last updated

Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker analyses the rise and rise of AI-generated video, and what it will mean for the internet and beyond

Last month, in the same week, two tech giants launched apps based around AI-generated videos.

The tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker analyses OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Meta’s Vibes, the wider rise of this type of video, and its one pervading aesthetic: AI slop.

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