AI Slop Drives States to Act as Federal Rules Lag: Explained

Browse online for only a few moments and you’ll bump into “AI slop” — media created or altered by artificial intelligence, optimized to grab your attention, and mass-producible with minimal human supervision.

Generative AI tools, such as OpenAI‘s ChatGPT or xAI’s Grok, pose risks beyond fake dinner recipes, low-quality children’s programming, and other nonhuman competition disrupting consumer traffic online. They’ve also caused a swell of misleading deepfakes, including doctored sexual depictions of real people — usually women, children, and public officials.

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Federal action to manage AI has been limited in scope.

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