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The Morning Addition team along with producer Austin talk about Merriam-Webster's Word of the year "Slop". Plus, holiday travel: yes or no? And exercising in the new year. Watch more on Queen City News+ using your Roku,

SNL has joked about AI in sketches this year, including one in January starring Timothée Chalamet and Bowen Yang that poked fun at AI’s proclivity for producing images of people with extra fingers. And in a sketch last month, Glen Powell played a grandpa pictured in old photos brought to life in an AI app gone wrong.

As AI researchers churning out papers with AI models rise to the top, the entire field is becoming a rapid race to the bottom.

By focusing automation efforts on high-volume, low-variability tasks rather than attempting to automate judgment, companies capture AI's benefits while avoiding slop.

In a trend on Twitter pointing toward "The World’s first 100% AI Created Game," Peak gets targeted by an account. Co-publisher Aggro Crab quotes this post to dispel any rumors or beliefs to the contrary of how the project came to be.