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"About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop," writes Search Engine Journal, "according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That's roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube." The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, counting AI-generated content in the first 500 For You videos. Kapwing ran the same fresh-account test on YouTube and found that 104 of the first 500 Shorts, or 21%, were AI slop. On TikTok, 294 of 500 For You videos hit that threshold... Of the 2,000 videos Kapwing reviewed in TikTok's Kids category, 57% were AI slop. That was the highest rate of any category in the analysis. The highest-rate tag was #cartoonkids, where 97 of 100 featured videos were AI-generated. Tags like #cartoons and #babysong both reached 83%, and #forkids came in at 79%. After Kids, the next highest AI slop rates were in Science and Education (35%), Health (33%), and History (33%). All three are categories where visual illustration and voiceover narration make up much of the content. On the other end, categories where on-camera presence or physical demonstration are central had the lowest rates. Fashion came in at 1.3%, Music at 1.5%, and Fitness at 1.6%. The article notes that by last November, TikTok "had already labeled 1.3 billion videos as AI-generated, according to the report."

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JD Vance arrived in Switzerland with his pregnant wife Usha Vance on Sunday and was also accompanied by special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for Sunday's talks.

A primary school teacher sacked for hiding her whirlwind romance with a convicted paedophile married him just five months after losing her job, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The six-bedroom country house in Aughton, near Sheffield, was advertised online as an 'ultimate celebration venue' for up to 22 guests, boasting a covered swimming pool, hot tub and sauna.

After two matches in Los Angeles, Iran left a farewell note to the city containing a reference to the horrific bombing of a school during the war between the nation and the United States.

It's the airline millions of us trust to whisk us away for our holidays every year...But it has been ranked among the worst airlines for UK flight punctuality.

Katie James, Kara Terol and Hannah Sharma all received life-saving heart transplants before the age of 35 and all donated those that were removed to research.

Parts of England and Wales are expected to reach record highs of at least 38C in the day, but warnings have been issued over 'heat stress'.

Wayne Denton and business partner Janet Martin spent £2,480 on VIP packages for the star's show in Liverpool, which included a meet-and-greet.

The blog Linuxiac reports: A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd's recently added support for storing a user's birth date in JSON user records. The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverting the change that added the new optional birthDate field. Importantly, this is not a new init system, a wider redesign of systemd, or a general-purpose alternative to the upstream project. Its stated purpose is to remain close to upstream systemd while removing what the author describes as "surveillance enablement"... The author recommends testing the fork in a virtual machine before using it on real hardware and warns nightly builds are more likely to be unstable than named releases.

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There were at least 16,000 England fans among the 70,000 sell-out crowd in Dallas Stadium to watch the opening 4-2 victory over Croatia last week.

Brooklyn Beckham has remained silent after his dad extended an olive branch to his estranged son after his DoorDash advert swipe earlier this week. 

The announcement comes just weeks after Williams made her official comeback to tennis - four years after her last professional match - at the Queen's Club's HSBC Championships.

The influencer, 27, welcomed her second child with Tommy Fury , also 27, earlier this month.

The popular feline was named 'Visitors Favourite Cat' during the show.

Jamal Coombes died from his injuries after he was stabbed on Glycena Road, Battersea.

After their thumping win over Croatia, England stars have been unwinding in the Wild West ahead of their next game, going to a country music gig, playing baseball and hanging out in a Middle Eastern eatery

Snow recalls: 'When I started to read the news at Channel 4 , I'd been on the road for about 15 years, I felt very conscious that I was the dullest thing in the studio.'

Even by the standards of Broadmoor, the high-security psychiatric hospital that has housed some of Britain's most disturbed criminals, Tony Baekeland struck the staff as odd.

One train smashed into the back of the other on the same line near Bedford just after 5pm on Friday.