We attended a webinar organised by AI-transcription software Trint on detecting AI slop and best practices in generative AI, used an AI to draft an article with some human prompting, and then tested if another AI could identify its origins. The first half is mostly AI-generated from the event, the second half is a human analysis of how the AI performed

As of May 2025, more than half of all new online articles were generated by artificial intelligence, up from just a tenth at the end of 2022, according to SEO firm Graphite, reported by Dataconomy.

This rapid rise of AI-generated content – these days dubbed "AI slop" – is reshaping the information landscape and presenting challenges for journalists and newsrooms worldwide.

AFP (Agence France-Presse), the French news agency that reports in six languages, has had to meet these challenges head-on, namely by creating an AI literacy programme led by Sophie Nicholson.

She detailed how it all works in a recent webinar organised by AI transcription tool Trint and explained what it means for the future of trustworthy journalism.

A new era of misinformation and verification

Nicholson spent a decade working around mis- and disinformation. While deepfakes and sophisticated fakes are a concern, she described most AI slop as an extension of the same problem. It's mostly low-quality and........

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