Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe (techcrunch.com)

Meta has launched Vibes — a TikTok/Reels‑style feed inside the Meta AI app that surfaces only AI‑generated short videos — across Europe. Users can generate clips from text prompts, remix other people’s creations (adding visuals, music or stylistic changes), and share or cross‑post to Instagram and Facebook. Meta says the feed personalizes over time and that media generation in the app has increased more than tenfold since launch, framing Vibes as a social, collaborative creation space. For the AI/ML community this accelerates real-world deployment of prompt‑driven generative video at scale, raising both technical and policy questions. Technically it implies backend use of prompt‑to‑video models, real‑time style transfer and content pipelines for remixing, personalization and cross‑posting. Practically, the launch spotlights challenges around provenance, copyright, hallucinations/deepfakes, detection of low‑quality “AI slop,” moderation at scale, and impacts on creator economies — especially given Meta’s earlier push for “authentic storytelling.” The move also pressures platforms and researchers to improve synthetic content attribution, quality control and trust signals as generative video becomes mainstream.