AI & Misinformation
Deepfakes, AI slop and synthetic media — the fight over truth and trust online.
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'We're Seeing a Renewed Interest in More Tactile, More Real Forms of Storytelling' — The Odyssey Director Christopher Nolan on the 'Immediate and Harsh' Response to 'AI Slop'
Christopher Nolan has joined Hollywood's most prominent voices in condemning AI-generated content, warning that the industry's rush to deploy artificial intelligence threatens to erode the craftsmanship that has defined filmmaking for over a century. The Oscar-winning director's sharp critique—calling AI outputs "slop" and describing the public's backlash as "immediate and harsh"—signals a potential cultural inflection point where audiences are actively rejecting synthetic media in favor of human-made storytelling. As studios face mounting pressure from both creators and consumers demanding authenticity, Nolan's intervention suggests the industry's AI experiment may already be crashing against the limits of what audiences will tolerate.
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The Odyssey Director Christopher Nolan Says 'AI Slop' Is Being 'Utterly Rejected' By Younger Audiences
The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan has offered his thoughts on the "immediate and harsh" judgment of "AI slop" from younger audiences. The filmmaker behind The Dark Knight tri ...
Exclusive: Google’s former ‘click fraud czar’ emerges from stealth with an on-device AI shield against AI-powered phishing, deepfakes, and other scams
Shuman Ghosemajumder's new startup Reken uses an on-device 'private core' to analyze communications, automatically screening them for phishing and fraud attempts.
Why Are We Fine With AI Writing Code, But Not AI Making Music?
by Fake Perfection — We come to AI from software. Both of us have spent our whole careers in it, and from inside that world, AI is the most life-changing thing…
