AI is already creeping into election campaigns. NZ’s rules aren’t ready
Getty Images If you re often on social media, you ve probably seen it: the deluge of low quality, artificial intelligence made material clogging up our feeds. So called “AI slop” – the Macquarie Dictionary s Word of the Year for 2025 – is the result of generative AI being used at scale. It now floods the internet s most visited platforms with often deliberately misleading text, images and video, siphoning clicks away from real news sources and confusing readers. In New Zealand, AI generated
Getty Images If you re often on social media, you ve probably seen it: the deluge of low quality, artificial intelligence made material clogging up our feeds. So called “AI slop” – the Macquarie Dictionary s Word of the Year for 2025 – is the result of generative AI being used at scale. It now floods the internet s most visited platforms with often deliberately misleading text, images and video, siphoning clicks away from real news sources and confusing readers. In New Zealand, AI generated
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