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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · today 11:00 EDT

If Big Tech cared about fighting AI slop, it wouldn’t be drowning us in it

As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. "Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible," Mosseri lamented. "Everything that made creators matter - the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn't be faked - is now accessible to anyone with the right tools." […]

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