In the last few years, video and other content created with artificial intelligence

has begun to flood almost every part of the internet, and on social media it's almost unavoidable.

William Brangham takes a deep dive now into the world of what's known as AI Slop.

Have you seen these cats competing in Olympic diving?

What about this?

A baby who somehow gets control of a jumbo jet.

Or this security camera footage of bunnies enjoying a homeowner's trampoline.

Each of those has been seen hundreds of millions of times, and they are all fake.

They're a type of artificially generated content that is flooding social media.

Critics have dubbed it AI slop because it's quick and easy to produce and created by artificial

intelligence.

It's the stuff that you see in your feed that you didn't necessarily ask for, that looks a little bit

off, that was clearly generated quite quickly and quite cheaply, and is usually designed to be

scrolled through for a small amount of engagement and then moved past. It's not just flying babies

and bouncing bunnies. Some of the fakery is being posted from the most powerful office in the

country. Breaking now. President Donald J. Trump has announced a historic new health care system.

President Trump shared this fake video meant to look like a Fox News segment of him promoting a

non-existent medical technology. Every American will soon receive their own medbed card.

And this, fake video of Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office.

Plus other more clearly phony images.

Trump is king, as Pope, as a buff Jedi Knight from Star Wars.

Democrats do it too. Most notably, California Governor Gavin Newsom, here poking fun at the

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