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What’s more concerning is the incredible amount companies like Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon are spending on new data centres to keep up with expected AI growth. These AI scraping bots also profoundly impact the resource usage of web servers, leading to increased costs and performance issues. “AI slop is a derogatory term for low-quality media, including writing and images, made using generative artificial intelligence technology, characterised by an inherent lack of effort, logic, or purpose.”

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