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John Oliver on AI slop: ‘Some of this stuff is potentially very dangerous’

The Last Week Tonight host went deep on the creative bankruptcy and long-term concerns over AI images and videos flooding the internet

John Oliver covered the dangers of AI on his weekly HBO show, calling it “worryingly corrosive” for society. It’s “ultimately a volume game like any form of spam” and has led to AI generators ripping off the work of actual artists without crediting them. Oliver spoke about the many fake disasters that have been created with images and videos showing tornadoes and explosions and plane crashes that don’t exist.

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