Welcome back! The internet is drowning in noise. A new report reveals that a massive chunk of your video feed is now automated "slop" designed to farm clicks. While algorithms feed us garbage, the agents are struggling to survive the real world. A high-profile experiment to replace a shopkeeper with AI ended in financial ruin after customers realized they could trick it into giving everything away for free. Meanwhile, one global superpower has officially stopped chasing the smartest model to focus on putting "good enough" AI into factories.
In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:
Kapwing reveals the $117M economy of AI "slop" on YouTube.
Anthropic watches its AI shopkeeper get bullied into bankruptcy.
China abandons the race for high IQ to build AI infrastructure.
VidMage lets you swap faces in photos and videos for quick tests.
