"Today's X news is literally slop": fake AI headlines flood trending feeds

JasonBotterill · x · 2026-11-15

Jason Botterill shares a screenshot of AI-topic trending headlines on X, including a dubious "Anthropic launches local hardware for Claude Opus 5.5" (21.1K posts) and a "Pope Leo XIV warns against transhumanism" item, calling today's feed "literally slop." The post captures how AI news aggregation is being polluted by fake or unverified headlines.

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