John Oliver on AI slop: ‘Some of this stuff is potentially very dangerous’

John Oliver: ‘It’s not just that we can get fooled by fake stuff, it’s that the very existence of it then empowers bad actors to dismiss real videos and images as fake.’ Photograph: YouTube

John Oliver covered the dangers of AI on his weekly HBO show, calling it “worryingly corrosive” for society.

On Last Week Tonight, Oliver said that the “spread of AI generation tools has made it very easy to flood social media sites with cheap, professional-looking, often deeply weird content” using the term AI slop to describe it all.