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PAM FRAMPTON: Would you like some AI fruit slop videos with that?

Social media feeds are being increasingly cluttered with AI dreck

Social media is awash in banal content as it is, but just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse than nonsensical life hacks and videos of women having wardrobe malfunctions on water slides, along comes a heaping helping of fruit slop.

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“Fruit slop” is the name given to AI-animated videos featuring impossibly buff human-looking creatures with fruits, vegetables or other foods for heads. They have names like Strawberto and Bananina and Sweet Cherry.

The storylines are the one-dimensional stuff of soap operas: a husband finds out his wife has cheated on him when she gives birth to a child that is obviously not of his lineage — two cherries can’t make a banana baby, for example. The videos skew heavily towards infidelity, revenge plots, betrayal, premeditated seduction and sex, with plenty of tears and babies thrown in for good measure.

But it’s not all harmless fun. Some of the clips are incredibly violent, with rivals thrown off cliffs and ships; children who are seen as inconvenient can be banished, bullied or........

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