Last month, in the same week, two tech giants launched apps based around AI-generated videos.
The tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker analyses OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Meta’s Vibes, the wider rise of this type of video, and its one pervading aesthetic: AI slop.
He tells Lucy Hough about this kind of surreal content – giraffes driving away from the police, Stephen Hawking memes, Sam Altman being chased by a group of nuns – and about how much AI-generated video has improved in the past few years.
But with Donald Trump now sharing fake videos to his millions of followers, what does the rise of AI slop mean for our politics and beyond?
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