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There's this twitter account called "Insane Facebook AI Slop" https://x.com/FacebookAIslop https://x.com/FacebookAIslop Which really showcases what it is like

There's this twitter account called "Insane Facebook AI Slop" https://x.com/FacebookAIslop https://x.com/FacebookAIslop Which really showcases what it is like to casually browse modern social media. The most concerning part is how some of that absolute garbage is getting thousands...tens of thousands of likes and replies. And it's all from other bots. It's pretty much the dead internet theory. And somehow pages like FB can't moderate or filter away this garbage. Imagine what it will look like ten years from now. Someone predicted that the future of internet will be the "closed" internet, places that are highly vetted for human use only. The rest will be some scorched AI-wasteland. Also, imagine all the dollars wasted. Dollars wasted on generating the stuff, dollars wasted to accommodate the traffic, there has got to be some incentive to stop the slop.

ZaoLahma 2y ago
> Also, imagine all the dollars wasted. Dollars wasted on generating the stuff, dollars wasted to accommodate the traffic, there has got to be some incentive to stop the slop. This is what I'm curious about. Someone, a rather large amount of "someones", must be making bank from the AI generated content that is flooding the platforms. Some metric somewhere must be misinterpreted in some way that someone willingly pays for the AI content that no one(?) consumes. The question is where the money ends up and who is paying it.
- saulpw 2y ago
  > Someone, a rather large amount of "someones", must be making bank from the AI generated content Not true; they merely hope to make money. And anyway, if you can spend $10 to make $11 that's still 10% profit, right? Even if the reason you're making $11 is clicks/views from children and mentally deficient people.
- ziml77 2y ago
  This has some answers about it https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/ https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/

ZaoLahma 2y ago

> Also, imagine all the dollars wasted. Dollars wasted on generating the stuff, dollars wasted to accommodate the traffic, there has got to be some incentive to stop the slop. This is what I'm curious about. Someone, a rather large amount of "someones", must be making bank from the AI generated content that is flooding the platforms. Some metric somewhere must be misinterpreted in some way that someone willingly pays for the AI content that no one(?) consumes. The question is where the money ends up and who is paying it.

saulpw 2y ago
> Someone, a rather large amount of "someones", must be making bank from the AI generated content Not true; they merely hope to make money. And anyway, if you can spend $10 to make $11 that's still 10% profit, right? Even if the reason you're making $11 is clicks/views from children and mentally deficient people.
ziml77 2y ago
This has some answers about it https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/ https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/