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If Big Tech cared about fighting AI slop, it wouldn’t be drowning us in it

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Progress towards reliable deepfake labelling tech is sluggish, despite all the “help” from AI providers. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Image: Katie Barget / Pexels As 2026 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible,” Mosseri lamented. “Everything that…

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Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

2 months ago01 mins

The California attorney general has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children. Image: Vie Studio / Pexels Source: TechCrunch