I am completely exhausted by huge corporations like McDonald's and Coca-Cola choosing to rely so heavily on AI for their holiday ads. McDonald's made $25.9 billion in revenue in 2024, and Coca-Cola made $47.

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For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies. The words of the year aren't just a fun peek into new slang and language changes,

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 artificial intelligence 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.

Externally, the stakes are high too. That’s because when AI-generated content is 90% right and 10% wrong, it’s 100% damaging.

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

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.

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

Larian Studios is apparently bullish on generative AI. Despite backlash against the technology from fans and even some of his own developers, studio head Swen Vincke says the Baldur’s Gate 3 maker has embraced it for exploring ideas and for the early prototyping of new content.