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Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated."
Wednesday, in a call with investors, Mark Zuckerberg made this clear: The AI-generated content will continue until morale improves. As we have previously reported, the virality of AI-generated slop made and posted by people trying to make money on Facebook has been powered by Meta’s “recommendation” algorithm, which boosts content that was not posted by your friends or anyone you know—and which is often engagement bait—into feeds because it increases engagement and time on site. This content and this system, Meta said, has led to an 8 percent increase in time spent on Facebook and a 6 percent increase in time spent on Instagram, all at the expense of a shared reality and human connections to other humans.
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