And finally, there’s the AI training loop. Think about it: AI learns from internet data. But if the internet is increasingly ...

We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.

Suddenly, my feed was crawling with fake cake bakers basking in the love of real Facebook members. What does that have to do ...

An analysis of more than 300 million documents, including consumer complaints, corporate press releases, job postings, and messages for the media published by the United Nations suggests that the web ...

In a recent Instagram promo for the film Novacaine, Paramount skipped hiring actors to try its luck at AI-generated ...

Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos ...

However, the site has recently been plagued with an onslaught of AI slop, making it difficult for users to decipher what's real, human-made content, or fake. Pinterest users have taken to Reddit ...

The posts in question come from a variety of AI slop Facebook pages I didn’t ask to follow. The page names, such as “Nature and Animals,” “The Newstoday,” and “Dogs World,” have ...

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