BBC Audio | The interface | Why can’t people stop watching AI Fruit?

infidelity in the fruit bowl; Why do so many people watch AI-generated fruits fall in and out of love? In a week full of contrasting fortunes – Fruit Love Island, the TikTok synthetic reality hit, goes viral while OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora is shut down – Tom and Nicky ask what our love-hate relationship with “AI Slop” says about taste, humor and, yes, misogyny. And who actually makes money if the content pipeline consists entirely of bots?

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After the Meta Verdict: Is the Meta Verdict the Big Tobacco Moment for Big Tech? In the first verdict of its kind, a US jury found Meta and YouTube liable for developing products that harmed a young user – potentially a big moment for the social media industry. Nicky and Tom explain what it actually means for the rest of us: what counts as “addictive” design; why plaintiffs are targeting features like infinite scroll, autoplay, and algorithmic nudges rather than user-posted content; and how legal remedies, copycat cases…