Amazon's Echo Show displays have a growing clutter problem: AI-generated content creeping onto the home screen. CNET reports that the smart displays have been filling with what its reviewer bluntly calls AI "slop" and "garbage" — and that there is a way to turn it off.

The complaint will sound familiar to Echo Show owners. The devices' ambient home screens, originally pitched as a rotation of photos, weather, and useful glanceable info, have steadily absorbed more promotional and auto-generated material. The addition of AI-produced content pushes that further, turning a kitchen-counter display into yet another feed of machine-made filler.

The fix lies in the device's settings, where users can prune what the rotating display is allowed to show. It's a manual cleanup rather than a single kill switch, but it restores some control over a screen that sits in your home all day.

The episode fits a wider pattern: as companies push AI-generated material into existing products by default, the burden of opting out lands on users. For a device whose main job is passively showing you things, what Amazon chooses to display — and how hard it is to decline — matters more than on almost any other gadget.