“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver on Sunday sounded the alarm over the rapid rise of artificial intelligence-generated content that is increasingly appearing online.
At one point, he summed it up: “We are fucked!”
Oliver explained how the explosion of new AI tools has made it easier than ever to produce so-called “AI slop,” the low-quality music, images, videos and even news articles that are now dominating people’s social media feeds.
It’s “the newest iteration of spam” and is making some platforms “unusable” because of their sheer volume, Oliver lamented.
Many users don’t realize the content isn’t even real and “bad actors” are also seizing on some of it, he added, pointing to when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump last year falsely dismissed photos of big crowds at a Kamala Harris campaing event as being AI-generated.
“We’re going to be drowning in this shit for the foreseeable future,” Oliver warned.
The comedian acknowledged there’s no easy fix.
AI models are often trained on the work of real-life creators, effectively ripping them off, he noted.
He didn’t offer a solution but did suggest “a petty way” to seek revenge, by making genuine art by stealing from the slop.
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