ai generated content

A viral video showing a heart-shaped Samsung smartphone is AI-generated fiction, not an unannounced Galaxy device. Mashable reported that the clip, which depicts someone peeling protective film from the heart-shaped handset in what appears to be a retail store, originated from an Instagram...

YouTube’s renewed campaign against “AI slop” sounds like a decisive attempt to protect viewers and advertisers from an expanding tide of synthetic, repetitive, emotionally manipulative video. It is also an awkward reckoning for a company whose parent, Google, has spent years making generative...

Cloudflare’s public Radar tracker puts bots at roughly 57 to 58 percent of HTTP requests for HTML content, while Imperva attributes about 53 percent of measured 2025 web traffic to automation. Bots are a majority in those measurements, but that does not mean humans have disappeared from the web...

Reddit’s latest anti-bot thinking points to a much bigger shift than a simple product tweak: the company may be moving toward a world where proving you are human matters as much as posting well. In remarks attributed to CEO Steve Huffman on the TBPN podcast, Reddit is reportedly exploring...

Microsoft’s decision to illustrate a Windows 11 how-to article with an obviously AI-generated image has become a small but revealing scandal: the company’s own learning center appears to have traded accuracy for automation, and readers noticed immediately. The image, which was attached to...

Google’s newly granted patent that describes dynamically replacing a brand’s landing page with a personalized, AI-generated page isn’t a thought experiment — it is a concrete blueprint that shows how search could remove the click-through step for some users and host a user-specific experience...