We're in our AI slop era

我们正处于人工智能的粗放时代。

Today, Explained

2025-10-08

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Meta just dropped Vibes and OpenAI just dropped Sora 2. Both social media platforms are filled with AI videos that warp our sense of reality. This episode was made in collaboration with Vox's Future Perfect. It was produced by Ariana Aspuru, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Adriene Lilly, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Today explained from Vox,

  • Sean Ramosfer and also from Vox I'm soon to be the father of a daughter and my dad's pretty excited about that

  • because he always wanted a daughter He wanted me to be a girl and that's all the time we have to talk about that But the other day he sent me a video A YouTube short of a girl singing it was titled 12 year old sings for hero dad and he said hope my granddaughter learns this song one day But nothing about this video seemed right for starters the girl looks

  • like she's six and not The description reads the heartwarming song that the father taught his daughter before the accident.

  • What accident?

  • The mouth movements don't line up, the shots of the crowd, the lighting, everything is too perfect.

  • And that's why it had to be AI Slop.

  • I wrote back to my dad,

  • this video is unfortunately artificial intelligence and we haven't talked since.

  • Just kidding.

  • But my dad's not the only one getting duped by AI Slop.

  • A lot of you are and pretty soon the rest of us will join you because we are in our AI Slop era.

  • Megan Rapinoe here.

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