Is AI slop ruining the Web?

”Yesterday’s meatloaf is today’s sloppy joes.”

This week, Tristan and Tasia look at the open letter from several former OpenAI employees (and others) warning of the existential threat of AI and demanding whistleblower protection. Then we discuss various new generative AI tools and developments that are simultaneously making us more productive and the Web more terrible. Join us as we wade through AI failures, AI doom, AI porn, and AI slop to reach the shores of AI disappointment.

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AI SAFETY NEWS

• OpenAI employees warn of AI’s potential existential threats to humanity in letter

• AI workers demand stronger whistleblower protections in open letter

• A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence

GENERATIVE AI NEWS

• Wizards of the Coast advertises for AI role, deepening the disconnect with fans

• Perplexity AI launches new tool to turn research into content

• Introducing Perplexity Pages

• Wix’s new tool taps AI to generate smartphone apps

• AI apps on Google Play have to limit distribution of inappropriate content, company says

• X (aka Twitter) adjusts its policies on AI-generated nudity and sexy pictures

• Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet

• Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content