Google’s Bringing AI Slop Directly to TVs

Google’s Bringing AI Slop Directly to TVs

By AJ Dellinger
Publication Date: 2026-01-06 19:30:00

Creatives have been pushing back against the use of generative artificial intelligence in their work, going so far as to include disclosures indicating AI wasn’t used during a production. So Google is bypassing Hollywood entirely and bringing slop directly to consumers. The company announced this week that it will add its AI tool Gemini to Google TV devices, which will include the ability to use image and video generation models Nano Banana and Veo directly on the TV.

Per Google, Gemini integration into Google TV will bring along the AI model’s ability to search for information. Google says the tool will provide a “visually rich framework” to explore topics, sprinkling in images, visuals, and real-time information—evoking the company’s “visual interfaces” that it introduced with Gemini 3. It’ll also offer “Deep dives” that, according to Google, will provide “narrated, interactive overviews simplified for the whole family.” Seems the idea…