Michael Heat: So publishing is definitely at the top of the list of industries that were worried about plagiarizing the original work and we should all know because we are all in the publishing industry. But there is also content that is the opposite of a caring, man -made work, namely AI Slop. The term is explained when you talk thunderous, but let’s quickly talk about what Ai Slop is and why it seems to be everywhere.
Lauren Goode: I can take it, but I also want to throw him back to Kate, because Kate, you are the Queen of AI Slop, and I don’t mean you are generating him. I do not mean that this is part of your personal content vector or whatever we call it, but you wrote a lot about it. Ai Slop is just a low quality, a cheesy AI content that appears online. Spreads our channels. He is often on social media, but not only on social media. This is now passed as justified, quote “journalism”. For example, last month Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer published these special sections recommending summer reading lists, and the list contained several invented books of real authors, and these names and titles were simply random. Slop is not only invented things. I think he has some aesthetics. This is part of this growing trend in the field of internet cancellation, of which, of course, Cory Doctorov wrote for wire.com a few years ago, and now only the date we operate. I feel like spam, and sometimes it is easily recognizable, and sometimes it is simply not.
Katie Drummond: So you mean movies that I see on a Tiktoku from Donald Trump and Jesus Christ, who walking on the beach is not real?
Lauren Goode: No, these are true.
Katie Drummond: Oh okay. This is happening.
Lauren Goode: It really happened.
Katie Drummond: Oh okay. Because I favored them all because I want to see more. So these are AI. I have it. All right.
Lauren Goode: So exactly. The same with JD Vance Breakdancing with Pope Leo, they are true.
Katie Drummond: Oh, I have … Yes, of course.
Lauren Goode: Yes. He hasn’t killed him yet.
Michael Heat: Many of these examples are amusing or amusing, but they are more stern. Recently, AI Slop from current events appeared in the Middle East, right?
Katie Drummond: Of course. Yes.
Michael Heat: And politicians and world leaders will further send these things, even knowing that they are false, just because they speak to their sensitivity and helps them distribute the message that they want to spread.
Katie Drummond: Oh, I’m kidding when I’m stressed and uncomfortable, and I would say that it is extremely uncomfortable and stressful. I think you would all agree that I am a journalist now. Try to be the editor -in -chief, I’ll tell you. And in fact, observing how AI Slop spreads on the Internet, on all these platforms, sometimes they are wrong with factual information by consumers at the same time at which we are at this very existential moment of news and media. Once again, we are at the time of existential message and the media, in many respects due to artificial intelligence, due to the way Google changes search, due to other ways in which AI changes, how people gain access to information. The publishers are once again basically in the crosshairs of all this and to add a insult to injuries, you open Tiktok, Jesus and Donald Trump fish, and as if it were everywhere. It’s like surrounding you if you are a journalist because you experienced the slope. You see what he does with the online information landscape, and then you hit your head against the brick wall, because Google did it, it’s or the second with artificial intelligence reviews and suddenly I come up with numbers. I really come up with numbers, but suddenly your search movement has fallen by 50%, and this has existential consequences for publishers. There is also such a strange thing that caught my attention, and Kate, you informed about which content generated by artificial intelligence is really like the function of some websites and works really well for them. So Wired said that over 54% of longer English posts on LinkedIn, a favorite social network, are probably generated by artificial intelligence. Now LinkedIn said that they are monitoring posts to identify low quality and repetitive content, but artificial intelligence is probably really good in LinkedIn, because the general, dull writing is a kind of what LinkedIn flourishes. I think it’s compelling. This is not necessarily a good thing, but this is another hint, how the ubiquitous generative artificial intelligence has become online.