Nicole Nguyen

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636 appearances 12 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 11 Sep

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It's an information overload, creating sort of a virtual version of the boy who cried wolf.

To put it more plainly, if you're constantly seeing posts that aren't real, eventually you'll begin to question those that are real.

She's an associate professor at Georgetown University.

She researches how the influence of media works in the digital age.

She says now it's easier to just assume everything we see online is AI, but that skepticism isn't necessarily good.

So we're seeing AI in our ads, in our influencers, in propaganda, most aspects of media.

What does this constant flow of AI slop and not slop do to our ability to figure out what is...

truth, what is not truth, and maybe that question isn't as binary.

What does an influx of AI generated imagery do to us?

But the problem goes beyond rage bait or having another strong reaction to a post.

The inundation of AI slop also risks having us not react at all.

Here's Honey Farid again.

And the lack of certainty is already creating broader problems on the platforms themselves.

We asked Aidan Walker about that.

He's written extensively on internet culture.

He used to work for a website called Know Your Meme, the internet's meme encyclopedia.

What are some of the issues you've seen arise from AI-generated content circulating around the web?

About half of Americans rely on social media for news, according to a 2025 survey by the Pew Research Center.

And increasingly, that news is coming from creators.

whether they're seasoned journalists or fake ones that can be generated by anyone who knows how to write a prompt.

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