Combating AI Slop with Stephanie Humphrey - DTNS Weekend
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Tom Merritt
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
AI Slop is becoming a larger portion of the content on the Internet. What do we need to be aware of and what is its impact on us? Sarah Land and Stephanie Humphrey explore the topic.
Starring Sarah Lane, Stephanie Humphrey
Show Notes:
A Tool That Crushes Creativity by Charlie Warzel
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/ai-slop-winning/684630/
More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans
https://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-created-by-ai-than-humans
Most Americans think it is important to be able to tell the difference between AI- and human-generated content, but few feel confident they can
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to DTNS Weekend Edition. |
| 0:07.4 | I am Sarah Lane. |
| 0:08.5 | This is the fun part of the week where we have a fun and enlightening interview with somebody |
| 0:17.6 | who can help us all learn a little more. |
| 0:22.6 | Today it's Stephanie Humphrey. Hi, Steph. Hey, how's it going? It's going well. It's going well. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. |
| 0:29.2 | Happy to be back on DTNS. Well, we're happy to have you. So I know today we were going to talk about |
| 0:34.8 | AI slop. Now, that is a, that is a term that gets thrown around a lot for a variety of reasons. But we're talking specifically about how AI can confuse people on social media. So, so what have you been looking at? |
| 0:51.3 | So it's interesting because it's a couple different things, right? And when we |
| 0:55.5 | talk about slop, I think it's more the idea of careless information, carelessly generated |
| 1:03.3 | information because I don't think the large majority of the things that we consider slop are |
| 1:09.5 | intentionally malicious and intentionally are trying to |
| 1:13.8 | mislead or be propaganda or anything like that. We got plenty of real creators doing that kind of thing, |
| 1:20.5 | but I think a lot of the AI slop, if you will, is more careless generated information. |
| 1:27.4 | So there might be an error in something or it might |
| 1:32.1 | have hallucinated and made up something entirely. But the point is that it seems very real because it's |
| 1:40.0 | presented with a lot of confidence and a lot of certainty as if it was factual information. |
| 1:46.3 | So that, I think, is a little bit of a distinction between, you know, AI slop and just general |
| 1:51.8 | misinformation or disinformation on the web. It's just careless. People just did it and they |
| 1:56.9 | didn't think about whether or not it was right. They didn't care to check whether or not it was |
| 2:00.3 | right. They just created it, generated it, and put it out there. Yeah, or how it affects somebody who sees that and goes, oh, that's real, right? Even if it isn't. Exactly. It kind of reminds me of, you know, the olden days of, you know, people saying like, oh, that's Photoshopped. Back in my, right? Yeah. |
| 2:22.7 | We're all kind of used to, we're all used to the fact that something that seems real isn't always real. |
| 2:24.5 | And some people just are going to take it, you know, willy-nilly. |
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