The prospect of an Alberta sovereignty referendum triggered a wave of clickbait stories on video-sharing sites earlier this year. But in a development that one expert calls "troubling," content farms that typically use AI to narrate videos have come up with a way around crackdowns on such content – using real people.

With the proliferation of readily available artificial intelligence tools, social media users are likely to come across "AI slop" — low-quality, mass-produced and misleading content often seen as spam.

For example, a video that drew more than one million views on TikTok last month boldly claimed in its caption that "Alberta & Saskatchewan Just OFFICIALLY Made An EXIT DEAL That SHOCKED Canada!" The story – which lacked any sources substantiating the exit deal – was delivered

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