In a sea of hype, here are the AI ‘nothingburgers’ you don’t hear about

By Daswin De Silva, Professor of AI and Analytics, Co-Director of AI Institute, La Trobe University

It’s now a common experience to receive an AI-generated email that’s robotic and hollow, or get a stream of useless chatbot responses when you just need some help from customer service.

Worse yet, some people will dose up entire slide decks and project documentation with AI slop. Then there are the infamous cases of hallucinated references in a report by consulting firm Deloitte and in dozens of papers at a

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