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

AI翻译:互联网是否即将变得更加糟糕?

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2025-10-22

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Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker analyses the rise and rise of AI-generated video, and what it will mean for the internet and beyond. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, the flood of AI slop that could make your family WhatsApp even worse.

  • The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have have proved very useful.

  • But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

  • Back in 2014, Professor Stephen Hawking had a warning about artificial intelligence.

  • Once humans develop artificial intelligence,

  • it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate.

  • Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn't compete.

  • Unworthy so proceeded.

  • Hawking died four years later, before the age of chatchy PT,

  • deep fakes and AI in every corner of modern life.

  • What he might not have foreseen is its latest evolution.

  • Hawking still out front!

  • Look at that speed down the main street!

  • 327 kilometers an hour from a wheelchair!

  • Hawking's likeness is now a frequent meme on absurd, often nonsensical, AI-generated video.

  • The kind of surreal content you might have noticed

  • while scrolling through Instagram or sent by your dad on the family WhatsApp.

  • The internet is now awash with this kind of video, known as AI slot.

  • Tech giants like Metta and OpenAI are betting this is the future,