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What A Day

The Politics Of 'AI Slop'

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Even if you don’t know what “AI slop” is, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered it basically everywhere you spend time online. Maybe it was those Facebook photos of an LA firefighter rescuing a baby and a bear cub during the wildfires earlier this year. Or it’s in emails from your MAGA aunt with an inspirational story she found online about a group of bikers with a suspicious number of fingers visiting a World War Two veteran in the hospital. Or it’s the President of the United States sharing AI-generated videos depicting the head of the Office of Management and Budget as the Grim Reaper or putting sombreros on House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. And with the latest version of OpenAI’s Sora app, it’s only going to get harder to know what’s fake — which is bad, because AI imagery is becoming inescapable in our social media feeds and our politics. So to talk more about what AI slop is, why it’s so profitable, and why we won’t be rid of it anytime soon, we spoke with Jason Koebler. He’s the co-founder of 404 Media, a tech-focused independent media outlet. And in headlines, President Donald Trump sends California’s National Guard to Portland after a federal judge blocks him from sending Oregon’s troops, delegations from Israel, Hamas and the U.S. are in Egypt to discuss a peace plan, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces yet another strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela.

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0:00.0

It's Monday, October 6th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that asks for the

0:07.4

millionth time, what on earth is President Donald Trump talking about? In the book, I wrote whatever

0:14.6

the hell the title, I can't tell you, but I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact

0:20.0

that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden, and I didn't like it, and you got to take care of him.

0:26.0

They didn't do it a year later. He blew up the World Trade Center, so you got to take a little credit because nobody else is going to give it to me, you know, the old story.

0:34.3

They don't give you credit, just take it yourself.

0:37.4

Okay, a few things. He is speaking there to Naval Academy cadets. The World Trade

0:43.5

Center bombing and 9-11 were not the same thing. You'll be shocked to know that his book does

0:48.9

not say any of this, and also, credit for what?

1:02.5

On today's show, Trump decides to send California's National Guard to Portland after a federal judge blocks him from sending organ's troops

1:05.4

and delegations from Israel, Hamas, and the U.S. are in Egypt to discuss a peace plan.

1:10.6

But let's start with

1:12.0

Slop, specifically AI Slap. And even if you don't know what AI Slop is, there's a good chance

1:18.8

you've encountered it, basically everywhere most of us spend time online. Maybe it was those

1:24.0

Facebook photos of an L.A. firefighter rescuing a baby and a bear cub during the wildfires earlier this year.

1:29.7

AI generated, of course.

1:31.4

Or it's getting emails from your MAGA aunt about an inspirational story she found online about a group of bikers with a suspicious number of fingers visiting a World War II veteran in the hospital.

1:41.2

Or it's the president of the United States sharing AI-generated videos

1:44.9

depicting the head of the Office of Management and Budget as the Grim Reaper, or putting

1:49.4

sombreros on House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, which Vice President J.D. Vance

1:54.3

seemed to think was hilarious? Here's Vance from Wednesday.

1:58.3

Oh, I think it's funny. The president's joking and we're having a good time.

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