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Jiaru Tang, PhD student, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology

‘Side job, self-employed, high-paid’: behind the AI slop flooding TikTok and Facebook

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TikTok, Facebook and other social media platforms are being flooded with uncanny and bizarre content generated with artificial intelligence (AI), from fake videos of the US government capturing vampires to images of shrimp Jesus.

Given its outlandish nature and tenuous relationship with reality, you might think this so-called “AI slop” would quickly disappear. However, it shows no sign of abating.

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