{"id":21353,"date":"2025-12-27T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/from-shrimp-jesus-to-erotic-tractors-how-viral-ai-slop-took-over-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:37:41","slug":"from-shrimp-jesus-to-erotic-tractors-how-viral-ai-slop-took-over-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/from-shrimp-jesus-to-erotic-tractors-how-viral-ai-slop-took-over-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"From shrimp Jesus to erotic tractors: how viral AI slop took over the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flood of unreality is an endpoint of algorithm-driven internet and product of an economy dependent on a few top tech firms <\/p>\n<p>In the algorithm-driven economy of 2025, one man\u2019s shrimp Jesus is another man\u2019s side hustle.<\/p>\n<p>AI slop \u2013 the low-quality, surreal content flooding social media platforms, designed to farm views \u2013 is a phenomenon, some would say the<em> <\/em>phenomenon of the 2024 and 2025 internet. Merriam-Webster\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/wordplay\/word-of-the-year\">word of the year<\/a> this year is \u201cslop\u201d, referring exclusively to the internet variety.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/27\/from-shrimp-jesus-to-erotic-tractors-how-viral-ai-slop-took-over-the-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8041d249bbe74b5e5a5fee5657f287b5e3ff385a\/0_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ea8737f0810169a429b2f3e254c41e0a\" title=\"From shrimp Jesus to erotic tractors: how viral AI slop took over the internet\" \/>Flood of unreality is an endpoint of algorithm-driven internet and product of an economy dependent on a few top tech firms<br \/>\nIn the algorithm-driven economy of 2025, one man\u2019s shrimp Jesus is another man\u2019s side hustle.<br \/>\nAI slop \u2013 the low-quality, surreal content flooding social media platforms, designed to farm views \u2013 is a phenomenon, some would say the phenomenon of the 2024 and 2025 internet. Merriam-Webster\u2019s word of the year this year is \u201cslop\u201d, referring exclusively to the internet variety. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flood of unreality is an endpoint of algorithm-driven internet and product of an economy dependent on a few top tech firms In the algorithm-driven economy of 2025, one man\u2019s shrimp Jesus is another man\u2019s side hustle. AI slop \u2013 the low-quality, surreal content flooding social media platforms, designed to farm views \u2013 is a phenomenon, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/from-shrimp-jesus-to-erotic-tractors-how-viral-ai-slop-took-over-the-internet\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From shrimp Jesus to erotic tractors: how viral AI slop took over the internet<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}