From the Editor

I think most people view AI as they did the internet back in the late 90s. They’re intrigued and excited by its potential, but confused too. They realise there are some fantastic tools to master, but also plenty of dross to avoid. That dross has a name: ‘AI slop’. Robert Irvine explains what it means in his excellent Cover Feature, where he recommends the best 20 tools to use, and another 20 that are total rubbish. The latter includes the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek. It looked promising back in Jan...