{"id":17163,"date":"2025-01-09T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/ai-generated-slop-is-slowly-killing-the-internet-so-why-is-nobody-trying-to-stop-it-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:38:10","slug":"ai-generated-slop-is-slowly-killing-the-internet-so-why-is-nobody-trying-to-stop-it-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/ai-generated-slop-is-slowly-killing-the-internet-so-why-is-nobody-trying-to-stop-it-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated \u2018slop\u2019 is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Low-quality \u2018slop\u2019 generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end?<\/p>\n

How do you do, fellow humans? My name is Arwa and I am a genuine member of the species homo sapiens<\/em>. We\u2019re talking a 100% flesh-and-blood person operating in meatspace<\/a> over here; I am absolutely not an AI-powered bot. I know, I know. That\u2019s exactly what a bot would say, isn\u2019t it? I guess you\u2019re just going to have to trust me on this.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m taking great pains to point this out, by the way, because content created by real life human beings is becoming something of a novelty these days. The internet is rapidly being overtaken by AI slop. (It\u2019s not clear who coined the phrase but \u201cslop\u201d is the advanced iteration of internet spam: low-quality text, videos and images generated by AI.) A recent analysis<\/a> estimated that more than half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated. Meanwhile, many news sites have covertly been experimenting with AI-generated content \u2013 bylined, in some cases, by AI-generated authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nLow-quality \u2018slop\u2019 generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end?
\nHow do you do, fellow humans? My name is Arwa and I am a genuine member of the species homo sapiens. We\u2019re talking a 100% flesh-and-blood person operating in meatspace over here; I am absolutely not an AI-powered bot. I know, I know. That\u2019s exactly what a bot would say, isn\u2019t it? I guess you\u2019re just going to have to trust me on this.
\nI\u2019m taking great pains to point this out, by the way, because content created by real life human beings is becoming something of a novelty these days. The internet is rapidly being overtaken by AI slop. (It\u2019s not clear who coined the phrase but \u201cslop\u201d is the advanced iteration of internet spam: low-quality text, videos and images generated by AI.) A recent analysis estimated that more than half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated. Meanwhile, many news sites have covertly been experimenting with AI-generated content \u2013 bylined, in some cases, by AI-generated authors. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Low-quality \u2018slop\u2019 generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end? How do you do, fellow humans? My name is Arwa and I am a genuine member of the species homo sapiens. We\u2019re talking a 100% …<\/p>\n

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