AI Slop Is Everywhere. What Happens Next?
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For better or worse, early signs indicate social users find AI-made videos highly engaging. Sora hit No. 1 in free apps in Apple’s App Store on Friday, even though you need an invitation to use it. And those cat-family videos? They have millions of views on Instagram.
In a medium where straight-to-camera takes drive engagement, Sora has a twist that might make it particularly addictive: Users are able to create digital versions of themselves, called “cameos,” then use them in their own videos or share them to be used in their friends’ videos.
The company is also grappling with the use of copyrighted characters. At first, it said it would ask copyright holders to opt out, as my colleagues reported; now, it’s saying it will give those owners more control over their intellectual property.
Critics have accused both companies of contributing to a deluge of so-called AI slop swamping the internet and blurring lines between real and fake. They are concerned that the new tools could facilitate abuses of users’ likeness, despite built-in protections, and that videos could spread misinformation. One of the first videos to go viral from Sora, for instance, was a deepfake of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appearing to steal a graphics processing unit (basically, an AI processor) from a big-box store.
Stop calling it “slop”. There’s good stuff, there’s bad stuff. Generalizing all AI art as “slop” just shows your own bias and ignorance.
I’m increasingly convinced that a future generation or two will reject all but the most necessary aspects of being online.
People don’t get on these platforms anymore.
The bubble pops.
Avoiding AI slop is becoming like walking through a minefield. It’s gonna eventually end not being worth the walk. Dead internet theory and all.
Yes. I signed up for tik Tok the other day to see a link my wife sent me. Holy crap the content that gets pushed to a new account is all AI generated.
Oddly enough the videos its algorithm pushed were killer Wales eating their trainers. Also memes about stalker accounts. I’m assuming because I wasn’t following anyone not was anyone following me.
Just a very weird experience.
Slop is slop. It will be recognized, ridiculed and changed up. Much like self checkout at Walmart. It’s complete Shiite right now with no hoe in sight.
Situation is the same as it was when the Ten Commandments were brought down from the mountain. Nothing new here except the technology available for sinful actions.
Dead internet becomes real very quickly. This slop grows exponentially and social media gets so flooded with it that real content is lost in the churn. Social media can’t cope as AI uploads tens of thousands of videos every minute.
Soon fake AI creators will make content sponsored by fake AI scam advertisers and watched exclusively by fake AI bots with no people in the loop for like 99.999% of uploaded content.
For me, it’s pretty much the end of the road for me and this whole internet thing. It’s just not fun anymore. I think all of this recent AI video and political madness was the last straw for me. Time to find something new to do.
A stock crash, and laws that AI content needs to be labeled as such.
Recently learning about data centers for AI and little regulation of where they’re constructed then locals having electricity bills skyrocketing. I like AI but it’s killing the planet and society with 99% use cases being for people to see themselves as some cartoon character.
Professional content editors that you subscribe to. Neal Stephenson wrote about this in Fall. Professional meatbag algorithm. Like it will be a new kind of science to find relevant information for people again.
We are witnessing a Great Filter no one had on their bingo card.
Idk..those Pokémon ai videos are kinda awesome. It really depends on you engage with your algo. Block the ai slop it’ll be removed from your feed. Keep the ones you like, you can find some decent stuff