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Though references to AI slop date back at least to 2022, a poet and technologist who writes under the name “deepfates” popularized it two years later as “the term for unwanted AI generated content” in ...

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Day 5 of Avalon Waterways’ northbound Romantic Rhine cruise took guests to the German cities of Mainz and Heidelberg.