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It's nice when a games journalist lets go with a nice takedown of AI slop. Shit Niblets. Bro'st-modern art. Hot Sloppy. etc.
#ai #genAI #slop #aiSucks #aiSuuuucks #orphanCrushingMachine #anotherDayInParadise
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/we-need-some-better-terms-for-genai-output-slop-is-too-benign
Rock Paper Shotgun · We need some better terms for GenAI output - "slop" is too benign
I'm not sure how it is for other topics, but when it comes to programming topics, I keep finding more and more AI slop on "developer" blogs. It's getting to the point where finding helpful content is more and more difficult. I guess because the people who don't actually care about knowledge can spew slop at a much higher rate than people who produce quality content.
Dev blogs used to be a decent supplement to library docs. Not really any more. 
*Plastic is slop, it's an oozy petroleum product, it crumbles, offgasses etc etc
*It was an amazing industrial miracle in the 1950s, they couldn't hype it enough
*I can see about 40 different plastic items from where I sit in this armchair
*Kid toys, clothing, furniture
*These laptop keys #slop
#AI is the new tobacco: that industry invented scientific controversy around the unquestionable harm of tobacco and lobbied aggressively against any regulation of its sales, just as corporations now peddle tall tales about utility of AI and lobby for its use everywhere, supercharging #enshittification by normalising #slop.
It took more than half a century to reverse what tobacco industry has done to public opinion on tobacco, and the damage to public health was irreversible.
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS A.I. WILL NOT MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE?
Don’t Get Scammed! Tips For Spotting AI-Generated Fake Products Online https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/03/25/detecting-ai-products/ by @Bellingcat
bellingcat · How to Spot AI-Generated Scam ProductsIt's harder than before to tell what’s real and what’s fake, but if you look closely there are often tell-tale signs.
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@Epidiah Since slop can always only be average and generic, the best way to mark something as human-made is to make it look weird in a unique way.
Here's hoping the scrapers will just slop it up!
Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
"The new feature would likely be an unwelcome one for users who would rather keep comments AI-free on Instagram, especially those who believe their friends deserve genuine comments as opposed to AI slop."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/
TechCrunch · Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram | TechCrunchIn recent years, Meta has introduced many AI features and capabilities to its apps, even going so far as experimenting with AI-generated characters
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It's not even that it is AI #slop, but that it takes an idea I think most folks here already agree with, and tries to present it with fake bona fides.
The implication is that someone cared enough to pay to put up a billboard on a public place. Social proof.
The message itself could have just been text, posted, even as a big image.
But whoever the original creator was chose to present it this way for more impact.
I'll agree with the point, but not the delivery
How do I permanently disable the #LLM #Slop features on @duckduckgo without allowing them to store cookies on my machine? I use cookie-autodelete, but ddg has always been decent enough from a fresh profile every time. Now they're inserting generated nonsense at the top and the only way to turn it off is to click the settings each time.
The CSS all seems to be random hashes, so I can't just uBlock the element by style information.
I don't think that AI can become self-improving to the point that it's improvement becomes infinitely accelerating and soon achieve godhood and create cures for all diseases and make all humans immortal (within my lifetime!) through brain uploading, and solve all problems and create paradise.
But I am pretty sure AI is able to cause an infinitely increasing acceleration in the enshittifcation of all software.
ZDNet: How to spot AI slop on Pinterest – and why it’s such a big problem. “For years, Pinterest has been dubbed the go-to social media site for inspirational mood boards, tracking lifestyle, fashion, and beauty trends, and finding niche and popular consumer-based products. Recently, however, the site has been plagued with an onslaught of AI slop, making it difficult for users to decipher […]