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The World in Images
Season 4 · Episode 124
How 'Slop' is poisoning the internet
0.011mDecember 16, 2025
Countless AI-generated videos are flooding the internet today. The phenomenon known as "slop" raises the question of whether the internet could collapse from such an overabundance of nonsensical images.
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