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AI Slop Startup To Flood The Internet With Thousands Of AI Slop Podcasts, Calls Critics Of AI Slop ‘Luddites’


So look, I’m not one of these people who thinks “AI” has no useful applications. Just this week I had an efficient conversation with a Gemini chatbot when trying to cancel a Googl…

These additional layers surrounding “AI” is where the coming bubble pop will happen, something Gartner analysts call the “ trough of disillusionment,” which they expect to hit the sector hard sometime next year. Flooding the zone with just an endless parade of human simulacrum isn’t going to do great things for the Internet’s already hugely problematic signal to noise ratio, or the public’s ability to differentiate the wheat from the chaff. Inception Point CEO Jeanine Wright seems a little sensitive about whether her company is engaged in anything useful or good, quickly dismissing critics of the plan to flood the Internet with focus-group-tested, homogenized slop “Luddites”:

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