👀 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/21/ai-slop-artificial-intelligence-social-media
Discussion
"To social media giants, content is content; the cheaper it is, the less human labour it involves, the better. The outcome is an internet of robots, tickling human users into whatever feelings and passions keep them engaged."
"Combine that with the necessary trivialisation and provocative brevity of the attention economy and you have a grand circus of excess. Even when content is deeply serious, it is presented as entertainment or, as an intermission, in a sort of visual elevator music."
A lot of what she's talking about there are memes and jokes. Not an application of AI I'm too worried about.
Flol. The Guardian can't even write an article about AI slop without going full lefty.
Lefties are such shit fucking people.