KI-generierter „Slop“ zerstört langsam das Internet. Warum versucht also niemand, ihn zu stoppen? | Durch KI erzeugter minderwertiger „Slop“ verdrängt echte Menschen im Internet, aber anstatt ihn zu regulieren, fördern Plattformen wie Facebook ihn positiv. Wo endet das?
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2025/jan/08/ai-generated-slop-slowly-killing-internet-nobody-trying-to-stop-it
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It ends by leaving Facebook. Just stop going there. I tried counting yesterday. I got a single post from a friend and then 47 advertisements before finding a post I subscribe to. It was a post from a brewery.
I used to be able to wake up. See how friends all over the world were doing. Then get out of bed. Now it’s just endless garbage.
It won’t end. But it will change into something new. And then that something new will devolve into something like our current situation. Then it will happen again. Rinse. Repeat.
At some point people will stop treating all AI content the same and judge it on its merits
Soon we will have AI agents that filter out the slop and make it invisible to us.
Btw there has always been plenty of people generated slop, it now is just cheaper to have AI make it. Of course AI is improving at an amazing rate and that means AI generated content will actually be a lot better soon, unlike people generated slop which always will suck.
As long as it drives engagement, conversions and views, they will keep it going. Larger corporations don’t give a F about people and consequences
Let’s see what it does….
Get your dose of AI ‘slop’ here : r/grok
Turn off the computer and pick up a book. Problem solved.
If the US election taught us anything, it’s that the average person *wants* everything to be terrible
It ends when companies realize they’re not making money.
Remember Alexa? Remember how it was going to be a key part of our lives? It was the same with Siri and Google’s version. Amazon spent $10 billion on it thinking we’d buy it and use it to order ice cream, convert our houses to respond to commands. “Alexa, lower the house temperature to 65°.” We were supposed to buy a heating / AC unit tied to Alexa. We didn’t, so Amazon laid off all the engineers and threw resources towards using AI for shopping. It works so poorly that I, someone who shopped at Amazon.com since the 90s no longer shops on Amazon.
Personal assistants didn’t completely disappear and AI will find a place in the background, but it will not lead to some Matrix-like future. It will run it’s course. If nobody makes money they will move on.
Advertising slop, influencer slop, political slop, tracking slop…what’s the difference adding in AI slop?
Why don’t people stop viewing in social media filled with slop?
AI slop silences actual people, so they can promote their wanted agendas, and then most people will assume what they see is what other actual people want, and it means more profit over people. New technology used in the same way as the stuff before it. AI will be the scape goat for when something bad happens that gets a large group of people killed based of its performance and things will keep on going forward like they have been for the last two decades.
When “premium” internet access blocks AI content, but it is incredibly expensive
Reddit is now the only social app I use and when the slop infiltrates Reddit enough I will leave this app too.
Two internets, some won’t tolerate slop
We should all quit the internet and just let the AI have it. Been fun dudes!
Dead Internet Theory… Though doesn’t feel like much of a theory anymore as it does reality.
Is it really? Already?
I really only use like Reddit and YouTube and my news app and occasionally shop online so I guess I don’t see much of the wider internet. But I don’t encounter that much AI slop.
It doesn’t end. Most people don’t care about how their content is made. AI content will make up the majority of content going into the future.
Forget A.I in the conversation for just a sec, slop in general needs to go.
Now, I don’t mean that as in “delete every slop video,” as I believe that is a form of censorship. It may be human made slop or A.I slop, but it’s still someone putting their voices and opinions out there. To delete that freedom they have is censorship.
But that leads to the problem of “how do we fix it?” To, at which point, I’m stumped on.
I don’t really see how this is a positive thing for Facebook. I know platforms like that have probably hit their apex in users long ago, but i don’t see how crowding out the remaining people is a good thing.
But maybe they just assume that they are too important for the world to move on from?
The “slop” does two things:
1) It adds decimal points to companies bottom lines
2) It stops large scale movements from forming and threatening the position of those in power
Ai generated slop = clicks, views and most importantly ad revenue.
I don’t see it crowding out anyone. Rather, it’s a mildly entertaining novelty that doesn’t seem to be costing anyone any jobs as of yet. It probably will usurp some jobs in the near future but not watching a three minute YT video of Jesus riding a giant shrimp ain’t gonna stop that.
It ends or decays once the return on all these bullshit investments fails to manifest and very large loses occur. Then lots of people in ‘AI’ will lose their jobs and the tech corporations will come up with some new boondoggle to hype investors into wasting more imaginary money. There will be more mass layoffs which will make investors think the companies are on track for growth. I’m hoping Governments will be compelled to constrain the ridiculously wasteful energy requirements to effectively make shit that has no value. Remember the Metaverse?