Snapchat joins YouTube and LinkedIn in battle against ‘AI slop’

Snapchat has joined the likes of YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack in a growing effort to combat fake writing, images and videos that are entirely created by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the BBC writes.

Such content, commonly called “AI slop”, has proliferated online as the tech industry has raced to create a greater number of easier to use generative AI tools that can create anything from essays to realistic videos.

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, said on Friday that the platform would stop recommending “wholly AI-generated videos” in its popular Spotlight feed in favor of “authentic, human-made content.”

Over the past two weeks, YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack have unveiled similar strategies.