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CES 2025 was full of IRL AI slop


This year's Consumer Electronics Show was full of weird AI products with questionable value propositions — IRL AI slop, if you will.

That’s the impression I got from this year’s CES, which featured AI-powered kitchen appliances, baby cribs, and other products that really weren’t calling for AI. Razer’s Project Ava, inexplicably named after the killer robot in the 2014 movie “Ex Machina,” is an “AI gaming copilot,” as the company describes it. As The Verge’s Sean Hollister writes, Ava is controversial in that it was evidently trained on gaming guides, yet doesn’t credit the authors.

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