#ai-generated-imagery

#ai-generated-imagery

Across the internet, eagle-eyed sleuths are crying " AI slop" after Saturday Night Live aired segments with what looks like AI-generated imagery. The first instance, from Saturday's cold open, shows an illustrated Christmas storybook. The images feature a hazy, yellow-ish hue and an image of streets that don't connect. The next, in "Weekend Update" showed an image of a woman playing a slot machine in an otherwise empty casino while using an oxygen tank with tubes that weren't connected.

The first ad, described as a "journey through kaleidoscopic geometries and pure imagination," was unveiled on the brand's Instagram as part of a "digital creative project" in collaboration with artists. But it was immediately torn apart by viewers for its "cheap" and "lazy" use of AI imagery, which experts have pointed to as proof that the practice has no place in the advertising industry.

In this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey and Richard Buckley break down Campbell Soup Co. v. Campbell for Congress, the lawsuit over a political candidate's "Soup4Change" slogan and AI-generated soup can design. They cover the backstory, the trademark and First Amendment arguments, and how the Hershey case may influence the court's view of political campaign branding. Tune in for a clear look at where trademark law meets political speech.

GameStop started with a mock-up of a statement declaring the console wars over. Sure, that's the kind of thing a company makes for social media when trying to capitalize on something in the news. The store notes that now that the Halo: Campaign Evolved remake is coming to PlayStation 5, there's nothing to fight about anymore, so you can take your Sony Ponies back to the stable and power down your Xbots.

The era of A.I. propaganda is here and President Trump is an enthusiastic participant. After nationwide protests this weekend against Mr. Trump's administration, the president posted an A.I.-generated video to his Truth Social account depicting himself as a fighter pilot, careening through major cities and dropping excrement on protesters. It was the latest example in a yearslong shift by Mr. Trump to deploy fake imagery, generated by artificial intelligence, as part of his social media commentary.

So I was intrigued when two new social networking experiences debuted in rapid succession in late September: Meta's Vibes and OpenAI's Sora. Thanks to the fact that both focus on letting people share AI-generated imagery, they compete directly with each other. But their all-AI format also sets them apart from existing social networks, where generative AI is most often a distraction from human contact, not the main attraction.

Kirk is an evangelical Christian, and that's actually a later development in his life. His group, Turning Point USA, was initially focused on college students, not religion. But around 2019, Kirk had a conversion of sorts. He started incorporating evangelical Christianity into his work, started speaking regularly at churches, hosting pastors conferences and even promoting the idea that the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. By the end of his life, Kirk was devoting a lot of his time to promoting conservative Christianity.

The fused bundle of weathered steel industrial pipes is eye-catchingly at odds with the grand fountains, statues and Victorian pomp of the massive bronze lions. But this sculpture is completely site-specific: press a play button and look into one of the eyepieces embedded into three of the five pipes and you see images of the surrounding city from the viewpoint of naval commander Horatio Nelson's statue 45m up in the sky.

I love the smell of deportations in the morning Trump posted. Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR, in reference to Trump's rebranding of the Department of Defense. Behind an AI-generated image of Trump as the main character in the movie is a depiction of Chicago burning with helicopters hovering over the city.

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue, and you'll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn't real. She was generated entirely by AI. For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn't airbrushing a real person; it's a "person" created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful woman.