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Weekly News Digest
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April 22, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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How 'AI Slop' Became Politicized
Nesrine Malik writes the following in “With ‘AI Slop’ Distorting Our Reality, the World Is Sleepwalking Into Disaster” for The Guardian:There are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input. Some of it is banal and pointless—cartoonish images of celebrities, fantasy landscapes, anthropomorphised animals. … The range and scale of the content is staggering. … A new genre of AI slop is rightwing political fantasy. There are entire YouTube videos of made-up scenarios in which Trump officials prevail against liberal forces. The White House account on X jumped on a trend of creating images in Studio Ghibli style. … These pictures and videos join an infinite stream of others that violate physical and moral laws. The result is profound disorientation. You can’t believe your eyes, but also what can you believe if not your eyes? Everything starts to feel both too real and entirely unreal. For more information, read the article.
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