For several years now, Facebook’s feed has been inundated by an incredible tidal wave of AI sloppiness that has transformed the platform — it feels like it’s been a long time coming. abandoned By practically anyone under the age of 65 – into an unfamiliar digital hellscape.
It’s been two years since we first saw the photo of “Shrimp Jesus,” an early form of AI-generated junk that foreshadowed an even more meaningless future, culminating in Merriam-Webster. making a “slope”Last month it was the 2025th word of the year.
Now, thanks to the advent of accessible text-to-video generators that can eat up footage from a simple text prompt, the situation on Facebook and other meta platforms is going from dire to disastrous.
A quick overview of r/FacebookAIslop subreddit AI slop exposes the horrors of the world, once again highlighting how social media feeds have been transformed by posts made by our friends and family An endless parade of mind-numbing dreck..
One 50 second video is playing It depicts a humanoid cat cooking a meal, only for his kitten-sized daughter to dive into a meat grinder and get turned into pulp. The kitten’s parents are unaware that they unknowingly spit up the green slime after their offspring eats it. The shocking clip ends with the mother cat being arrested by police, leaving her cat husband sobbing on the floor.
one more clipOriginally posted on Meta’s Instagram, it depicts a “shark doctor” spraying white paint on a black baby while it burns a white baby with a torch in a maternity ward. The clip is filled with shocking racist stereotypes. yet another clip A hair-raising photorealistic cat with eight spider legs is shown crawling along a wall.
The massive amount of junk polluting Facebook and Instagram feeds isn’t likely to go away any time soon. As Jagjit Chawla, Facebook’s vice president of product, said: told CNET Last year, the company’s algorithms responded to users viewing specific pieces of content.
“If you, as a user, are interested in a piece of content that is AI-generated, the recommendation algorithm will determine that, over time, you are interested in this topic and content,” he said. “If you’re not into that, which is, for lack of a better word, a group of users who consider that content AI loose, and if you’ve indicated to us that it’s not for you, the algorithms will respond appropriately to make sure we don’t show you any more than that.”
Reading between the lines, users who are watching with horror as their news feed turns into a lifeless wave of slop are the source of their own demise.
The company’s algorithms are also responding to positive signals, like liking, commenting or sharing — and given that slop is getting shared in abundance on Facebook, it’s no surprise we’re seeing more and more of it in our feeds.
The issue goes beyond humanoid sharks and cats. a clip Viewed by Agence France-Presse First Lady of the United States Melania Trump spent $10 million to build a church and “decorate it for Christmas alone” shows. Another clip shows singer Sabrina Carpenter attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new church.
This is blatant theft. Hollywood screenwriter Scott Collette recently noticed that an AI Facebook account was stealing posts from his history and “spinning out new captions.”
In retaliation, he began “feed it poison pills,” causing the page’s followers to suffer a “slowdown” in comments.
Other companies have since acknowledged the issue of AI slippage and promised to address the issue. For example, YouTube CEO Neil Mohan said that fighting the slope will be the “top priority”“This year.
It remains to be seen whether the meta will follow suit. For now, it’ll be up to users whether they’re willing to wade through a pile of AI slush to get a glimpse of what their friends and family are posting — that is, if they do at all. bothered first.
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