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The biggest AI flops of 2024

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Summary
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68% Informative

Generative AI makes creating reams of text, images, videos, and other types of material a breeze.

It takes just a few seconds for your model of choice to spit out a result once you enter a prompt.

And 2024 was the year we started calling this (generally poor-quality) media what it is: AI slop.

In February , a Canadian small-claims tribunal upheld the customer’s legal complaint against a chatbot.

The Rabbit R1, a ChatGPT-based personal assistant device, suffered a rash of critical reviews and reports that it was slow and buggy.

A new iPhone feature that groups app notifications together and creates summaries of their contents recently generated a false BBC News headline.

VR Score

56

Informative language

48

Neutral language

24

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

60

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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