In this week's episode of "The Future of the Future," Pedro Miguel Coelho talks with university professor João Santos Pereira about the phenomenon of AI Slop, images generated by artificial intelligence to cause as much commotion as possible and thus generate revenue for social media and those who publish them.

In recent weeks, you may have seen images, videos, and "like-worthy" texts on your social media feed that were entirely produced by artificial intelligence. The wildfires in Portugal, with their heartbreaking images of firefighters and citizen rescues, were a bonanza for those who make a living creating these "fakes," which have a technical name that hasn't yet been translated into Portuguese: AI Slop.

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