Republican AI Ad Uses Cutting Edge Tech to Tell Age Old Lies

Google Search’s AI evolution includes more ads

Is this Google’s AI or ad era?

In Texas, AI-generated political ads are blurring the line between real and fake - Poynter

Experts say increasingly realistic campaign ads could make it harder for voters to distinguish authentic messages from fabricated ones

Building Political Superintelligence

Amidst fears of dystopia, a blueprint for how we use AI to reinvent the way we govern ourselves

Deepfakes, Elections, and Shrinking the Liar’s Dividend

Heightened public awareness of the power of generative AI could give politicians an incentive to lie about the authenticity of real content.

Google research shows the fast rise of AI-generated misinformation | CBC News

From fake images of war to celebrity hoaxes, AI technology has spawned new forms of reality-warping misinformation online. New analysis co-authored by Google researchers shows just how quickly the problem has grown.

AI Populism's Warning Shots

the battles over AI are no longer just about the tech

AI Fakes Spread Disinformation. Is the Distrust They Create Even Worse?

Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

70 years of AI hype

Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."

An AI-Generated Content Empire Is Spreading Fake Celebrity Images on Google

A ring of websites using AI and run by an aspiring movie star are behind fake celebrity images featured in Google results, Motherboard found.

AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.

Home Office knew AI age checks for migrants were flawed – but rolled it out anyway

Exclusive: Government advisers describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ – and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult

Where Republicans and Democrats stand on AI data centers

Five charts exploring how Republicans and Democrats feel about AI data centers and what that might mean for the road ahead

AI slop

AI slop is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high volume as clickbait to gain advantage in the attention economy, or earn money. It is a form of synthetic media usually linked to the monetization in the creator economy of social media and online advertising. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation similar to spam. "Slop" was selected as the 2025 Word of the Year by both Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society.