AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it

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You’re lazing around the living room after a big holiday meal, when your uncle starts flipping through vertical videos. “Did you see that one of the cat snatching that snake out of a dude’s bed?” he asks.

Is it real? Is it fake? You feel a headache coming on.

“We’re being overrun by slop,” said Mike Caulfield, a co-author of the book Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online. “It just floods the zone and at some

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