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It's not like there aren't any portraits of the man Google's search results could surface to the top instead.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>Slop Pick\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>The image links back to an uninspiring and mostly redundant biography of Shakespeare's life on Medium, text befit of a header image as lazy as this one.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/17_11/shekspir6.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/17_11/shekspir6.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>The author, C.L. Nichols, has published dozens of articles on Medium, most of which feature equally lazy AI-generated images, including portraits of Fyodr Dostoevsky and Charles Dickens.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>As \u003Cem>Wired\u003C/em> reported last month, Medium is drowning in a major influx of AI slop itself. AI detection startups Pangram Labs and Originality AI both found that the blogging platform has been overrun with AI-generated copy.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine told Wired that "AI-generated content that gets posted to Medium is probably up tenfold from the beginning of the year," but claimed that "we're strongly against \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/rfk-jr-says-he-constantly-gets-fooled-by-fake-ai-content\">AI content\u003C/a>."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>However, combating the issue is far harder said than done, with large language models becoming incredibly adept at generating text that remains undetected.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Even as the world's leading search engine, Google hasn't fared much better.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>We've already come across Google prioritizing AI-generated dupes of the works of famous artists including Johannes Vermeer and Edward Hopper.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/17_11/shekspir5.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"191\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/17_11/shekspir5.jpg\" width=\"160\" />\u003C/picture>How exactly AI-generated images like Shakespeare's cartoonized likeness are floating to the top of Google's search results is hard to say.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The company has historically kept the way its algorithms work tightly under wraps.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>It's nonetheless yet another sign that the search giant is actively losing the war against AI-generated slop.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Worse yet, the company is itself making the situation worsel; \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/google-s-ai-now-lets-you-wildly-alter-photos-right-in-your-camera-app\">Google \u003C/a>recently rolled out "AI Overview" that's been caught stealing human-written content and more generally being shockingly bad at giving out accurate information.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Also read:\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/americans-favor-real-estate-as-a-smart-investment-outpacing-stocks-and-other-assets\">Americans Favor Real Estate as a Smart Investment, Outpacing Stocks and Other Assets\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/google-s-doppl-the-virtual-try-on-revolution-that-s-shaking-up-fashion-tech\">Google’s Doppl: The Virtual Try-On Revolution That’s Shaking Up Fashion Tech\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/eu-commission-releases-list-of-most-dangerous-pirate-sites-steer-clear-at-all-costs\">EU Commission Releases List of Most Dangerous Pirate Sites—Steer Clear at All Costs\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Cp>Thank you!\u003Cbr />\nJoin us on social media!\u003Cbr />\nSee you!\u003C/p>","the-top-image-of-william-shakespeare-on-google-is-lazy-ai-slop","2024-11-16T13:14:34.000000Z","2024-11-17T11:00:00.000000Z","17.11.2024",{"image":82,"image_webp":83,"thumb":84,"thumb_webp":85},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/gyezS7RXxLba38m9EiKcCgrZzljQzM6sksxq3vYt.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/gyezS7RXxLba38m9EiKcCgrZzljQzM6sksxq3vYt.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/gyezS7RXxLba38m9EiKcCgrZzljQzM6sksxq3vYt.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/gyezS7RXxLba38m9EiKcCgrZzljQzM6sksxq3vYt.webp","small",null,1616,4,"en",0,{"id":46,"title":47,"slug":48,"meta_title":93,"meta_description":94,"meta_keywords":94,"deleted_at":87,"created_at":95,"updated_at":96,"lang":90},"Artificial Intelligence | AI Breakthroughs, Agents & Tools | QUASA","Artificial Intelligence, ai, ml, machine learning, chatgpt, future","2024-09-22T08:08:27.000000Z","2026-04-22T14:56:34.000000Z",[98,113,127,139,152],{"title":99,"description":100,"slug":101,"created_at":102,"publish_at":103,"formatted_created_at":104,"category":105,"links":106,"view_type":86,"video_url":87,"views":111,"likes":91,"lang":90,"comments_count":91,"is_pinned":112},"GitHub’s Switch to Usage Pricing Reignites the AI Economics Debate — And Ed Zitron Is Back With Another Bubble Warning","GitHub’s quiet but seismic shift from flat-rate subscriptions to usage-based pricing for Copilot has done what no earnings call or hype cycle could: it has forced the AI industry to confront the uncomfortable math behind the curtain.","github-s-switch-to-usage-pricing-reignites-the-ai-economics-debate-and-ed-zitron-is-back-with-another-bubble-warning","2026-05-04T19:00:43.000000Z","2026-05-10T03:53:00.000000Z","10.05.2026",{"title":43,"slug":44},{"image":107,"image_webp":108,"thumb":109,"thumb_webp":110},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/BC3kkxlo7SZEI4g0D8e01yDXZyqF77TaTgCjfWNZ.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/BC3kkxlo7SZEI4g0D8e01yDXZyqF77TaTgCjfWNZ.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/BC3kkxlo7SZEI4g0D8e01yDXZyqF77TaTgCjfWNZ.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/BC3kkxlo7SZEI4g0D8e01yDXZyqF77TaTgCjfWNZ.webp",3,false,{"title":114,"description":115,"slug":116,"created_at":117,"publish_at":118,"formatted_created_at":119,"category":120,"links":121,"view_type":86,"video_url":87,"views":126,"likes":91,"lang":90,"comments_count":91,"is_pinned":112},"Talkie-1930: The Largest “Vintage” LLM Ever Built, Trained Exclusively on a World That Ended in 1930","The roadmap is ambitious. 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