4 Sep 2025

Tech: AI Slop, Open AI sued over suicide linked to ChatGPT

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 4 September 2025
This photo illustration taken in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2025, shows images on the internet and social media of AI bikini-clad women conducting street interviews. The videos are strikingly lifelike, featuring bikini-clad women conducting street interviews and eliciting lewd comments from onlookers -- but they are entirely fake, generated by AI tools increasingly used to flood the internet with sexist content. (Photo by AFP)

An example of 'AI slop' - AI-generated content has bikini-clad women conducting news interviews. Photo: STAFF / AFP

Technology commentator Mark Pesce looks at how generative AI is creating more and more videos - but is it being almost weaponised and targeted against us?

OpenAI is being sued after a 16 year old in the US killed himself after being encouraged by ChatGPT.

Where does the role and responsibility of AI companies begin and end if they're used for emotional support?

And Mark will be delivering the opening keynote address at next week's Canterbury Tech Summit. Details here

Mark Pesce is a futurist, writer, educator and broadcaster