Cracking down on AI slop

The pre-print science website arXiv has announced that researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by artificial intelligence will face a year-long ban and ongoing restrictions.

The serpent in the grove

The judges of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize may have been scammed into giving a regional prize to an imposter who used AI to generate his winning entry in the latest literary scandal to rock the arts world.

Lazy boys and shy girls

Authors and critics looking to cut corners by passing off AI slop as their own work still face sanctions in the world of literature and serious journalism.

The rotten fruit of AI slop

It’s a law of human nature that the more sophisticated a technology is, the stupider the uses it will be put to. So, if you like wasting your time on TikTok, you may have noticed a strange new type of AI brain rot taking over for this week at least – “fruit dramas”.