‘AI slop’ is flooding the Internet. This is how can you tell if an image is artificially generated

Fake images generated with artificial Intelligence (AI) are rapidly swarming social media, flooding feeds with a new type of spam: useless “AI slop” designed to farm clicks in the form of interactions.

Although the first generative AI (GenAI) programmes were released in 2022, reports suggest that over 15 billion AI-generated images are already circulating online.

OpenAI’s latest data shows that users create more than 2 million images daily with DALL-E 2, its image-generation model amounting to…