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Lance Ulanoff

AI Slop won in 2025 — fingerprinting real content might be the answer in 2026

Getty office image with Adobe Firefly-generated AI painting bunny.

The battle against AI content is lost. Slop fills our feeds, and it's up to us to discern what is real. But what if 2026 represents the dawn of a new approach, a flipping of the script where we no longer chase identifying what's artificially created and instead fingerprint the real?

This is the not-necessarily-novel concept presented in a recent New Year's Threads post from Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri.

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