The Age of AI Slop

Short overview of the lesson:

• Watch a short video about AI-generated content filling online spaces and discuss personal reactions.
• Decide which images were created by humans and which were AI-generated.
• Read a short discussion about AI slop and identify its main warning signs.
• Notice and categorise useful functional language for agreeing, disagreeing, qualifying, prioritising and making distinctions.
• Create an AI Slop Detector using a set of possible red flags.
• Use the detector to judge different examples in the AI Content Court.
• Discuss borderline cases and justify group verdicts using the target functional language.
• Take part in a budget-based game and choose solutions for reducing low-value AI content online.
• Complete a speaking-focused homework task by ranking, evaluating or defending opinions about AI-generated content.