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Published: Jan. 2, 2026 at 12:43\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n

You may already be familiar with the term \u201cAI slop,\u201d with generative artificial intelligence being used to create an increasing amount of content on the internet. Christine Ji and Britney Nguyen interviewed AI experts who discussed how the public reaction to the new technology compared with opinions during the early years of the internet and what the online media world might look like as it moves beyond AI slop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More from the MarketWatch technology team:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 2, 2026 at 12:43\u202fp.m. ET You may already be familiar with the term \u201cAI slop,\u201d with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[3500,8131,107340,291,2552,85047,85030,289,83888,67210,290,30448,126803,85833,17733,87187,11715,85036,1096,5149,85786,41570,6393,135664,18,1306,7520,35567,5760,41571,78968,18131,41592,25817,3334,5568,94541,14668,135,475,88945,126807,83910,19,91735,3912,3442,41557,17,610,37634,88944,2336,234,9436,44285,85048,2895,190,9588,83891,19363,41589,41574,126808,19506,1114,29196,95141,864,34520,135662,850,41575,26243,82,95146,10654,135663,41591,41555,135665,135667,135666,135668],"class_list":{"0":"post-264692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-aerospace","10":"tag-aerospace-defense","11":"tag-ai","12":"tag-analysis","13":"tag-analyst-comment","14":"tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","15":"tag-artificial-intelligence","16":"tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","17":"tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","18":"tag-artificialintelligence","19":"tag-buying","20":"tag-buying-selling-a-home","21":"tag-ce-exclusion-filter","22":"tag-commentary","23":"tag-commentary-opinion","24":"tag-commodity","25":"tag-commodity-financial-market-news","26":"tag-computer-science","27":"tag-computers","28":"tag-computers-electronics","29":"tag-content-types","30":"tag-defense","31":"tag-djt","32":"tag-eire","33":"tag-electronics","34":"tag-energy","35":"tag-equity-markets","36":"tag-exchange-traded-funds","37":"tag-factiva-filters","38":"tag-financial-market-news","39":"tag-financial-services","40":"tag-financial-vehicles","41":"tag-funds","42":"tag-general-news","43":"tag-generative-ai","44":"tag-government-sponsored-health-insurance","45":"tag-graphics-processing-units","46":"tag-health","47":"tag-health-care","48":"tag-health-medical-insurance","49":"tag-home-buying-selling","50":"tag-humanities","51":"tag-ie","52":"tag-industrial-electrical-equipment","53":"tag-insurance","54":"tag-investing","55":"tag-investing-securities","56":"tag-ireland","57":"tag-machine-learning","58":"tag-medical-insurance","59":"tag-non-life-insurance","60":"tag-opinion","61":"tag-personal-finance","62":"tag-political","63":"tag-political-general-news","64":"tag-recommendation","65":"tag-retirement-planning","66":"tag-sp-500-index","67":"tag-sciences","68":"tag-sciences-humanities","69":"tag-securities","70":"tag-selection-of-top-stories","71":"tag-selection-of-top-stories-trends-analysis","72":"tag-selling-a-home","73":"tag-semiconductors","74":"tag-social-media","75":"tag-social-media-platforms","76":"tag-social-media-platforms-tools","77":"tag-software","78":"tag-spx","79":"tag-stock-options-markets","80":"tag-streaming-services","81":"tag-suggested-reading-industry-news","82":"tag-synd","83":"tag-technology","84":"tag-tools","85":"tag-trends","86":"tag-trump-media-technology-group-corp","87":"tag-trusts","88":"tag-trusts-funds-financial-vehicles","89":"tag-truth-social-american-energy-security-etf","90":"tag-truth-social-american-security-defense-etf","91":"tag-tses","92":"tag-tssd"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}