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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality


Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

Bitton, meanwhile, posits the "McDonald's Theory of YouTube Success," and the "Gas Station Sushi" approach to content, which suggest that AI slop is good enough, and that human beings doting over quality videos are wasting their time and are destined to fail. My friends, many of whom are journalists or who work in adjacent industries, are increasingly spending more time in group texts talking to real humans, or supporting independent, newsletter-centric media outlets like ours. For Meta, I do not think its plan is too hard to figure out, because Mark Zuckerberg has been clear about his intentions: He believes that the future of "social media" is a bunch of human beings scrolling through and arguing about AI-generated content on his many platforms.

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