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Jeremy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hoosier.social/@Bikevisionary" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Bikevisionary</span></a></span> Of course, the generative AI note-taking from a service called citizenportal.AI is going to be bad, but wow - the fact that it completely misrepresents the story is quite telling of the bias inherent in the model as well its general shittiness, especially given the fact that the story is about these data centers.</p><p>The actual article from a independent news agency, WISH-TV, is accurate. </p><p><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/HoosierMast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HoosierMast</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/Indiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indiana</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a></p>
El Proxy<p>📰 <strong>«Wikipedia luchando contra la bazofIA»</strong><br>🔗 <a href="https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/2025/09/26966/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">proxy.jesusysustics.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">9/26966/</span></a></p> <a href="https://www.genbeta.com/web/hay-articulos-hechos-ia-internet-que-credibilidad-wikipedia-corre-peligro-asi-esta-combatiendo" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p></p> Hay tantos artículos escritos por la IA en internet que la Wikipedia ya tiene un método para detectarlos <a href="https://www.genbeta.com/web/hay-articulos-hechos-ia-internet-que-credibilidad-wikipedia-corre-peligro-asi-esta-combatiendo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">genbeta.com/web/hay-articulos-</span><span class="invisible">hechos-ia-internet-que-credibilidad-wikipedia-corre-peligro-asi-esta-combatiendo</span></a> <p>Es muy triste que la Wikipedia tenga que dedicar parte de sus esfuerzos a luchar contra la bazofIA (contenido de baja calidad generado por Inteligencia Artificial). Y todo en un momento clave en el que desde <a href="https://es.moyens.net/tec/maga-apunta-a-wikipedia-batalla-control-informacion/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">la ultraderecha americana intentan buscarle las cosquillas</a>.</p><p>A veces tengo la sensación de que, si en algún momento llegamos a superar esta etapa donde la manipulación se sirve de IA para engañarnos, solamente nos quedará una opción: reventar Internet tal como la conocemos y refundar una nueva. Una enorme pérdida cultural, pero la alternativa de acoger un mundo en el que encontremos más imágenes falsas que reales es aterrador.</p><p>#️⃣ <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/tag/bazofia/" target="_blank">#bazofIA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/tag/inteligencia-artificial/" target="_blank">#InteligenciaArtificial</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/tag/internet/" target="_blank">#Internet</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/tag/slop/" target="_blank">#slop</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/tag/wikipedia/" target="_blank">#Wikipedia</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>AFP: ‘Fueling Sexism’: AI ‘Bikini Interview’ Videos Flood Internet. “Hordes of AI clips, laden with locker-room humor, purport to show scantily clad female interviewers on the streets of India or the United Kingdom — sparking concern about the harm such synthetic content may pose to women. AFP’s fact-checkers traced hundreds of such videos on Instagram, many in Hindi, that purportedly show […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/02/fueling-sexism-ai-bikini-interview-videos-flood-internet-afp/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/02/fueling-sexism-ai-bikini-interview-videos-flood-internet-afp/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Guardian: Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?. “Algorithm movies usually exhibit easy-to-follow story beats that leave no viewer behind; under this regime, exposition is no longer a screenwriting faux pas. A recent n+1 article revealed that screenwriters who work with Netflix often receive the note: ‘Have this character announce […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/01/bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films-the-guardian/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/01/bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films-the-guardian/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>NiemanLab: Trusted news sites may benefit in an internet full of AI-generated fakes, a new study finds. “We’re all getting a lot of AI-generated content in our feeds these days. But a new working paper suggests there’s a silver lining for trusted news organizations: they may be able to benefit from the broader degradation of the information ecosystem and win over subscribers concerned about […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/niemanlab-trusted-news-sites-may-benefit-in-an-internet-full-of-ai-generated-fakes-a-new-study-finds/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/niemanlab-trusted-news-sites-may-benefit-in-an-internet-full-of-ai-generated-fakes-a-new-study-finds/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>BBC: BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images. “An international network of spammers are posting AI-generated images of Holocaust victims on Facebook, a BBC investigation into ‘AI slop’ has found. Organisations dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust say the images are leaving survivors and families distressed. They have also criticised Facebook’s parent […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/bbc-bbc-reveals-web-of-spammers-profiting-from-ai-holocaust-images/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/bbc-bbc-reveals-web-of-spammers-profiting-from-ai-holocaust-images/</a></p>
Inautilo<p>“I became an AI hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life.” — Anthony Moser</p><p>_____<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Machines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Machines</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Automation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Debates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a></p>
dark was the night 🌚<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> </p><p>AI, the New Aesthetics of Fascism, by Gareth Watkins</p><p><a href="https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsocialist.org.uk/transmissi</span><span class="invisible">ons/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/</span></a></p><p>(Tip of the hat to Anthony Moser via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>davidgerard</span></a></span> )</p>
Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​<p>Whenever I use an LLM to do some mainframe stuff with me I think 'Oh no way, I didn't know you could do that on z/OS' and then i go a try it and, lol, no, it just made shit up. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a></p>
Pseudo Nym<p><a href="https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-c</span><span class="invisible">oncert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/</span></a></p><p>Unsurprisingly, AI augmented results are not always what they appear to be. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a></p>
AsSlowAsPossible<p>The seven deadly sins as we know them have a translation error.<br>Sloth is not a sin - it's slop.</p><p><a href="https://sloth.es/tags/sloth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sloth</span></a> <a href="https://sloth.es/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a> <a href="https://sloth.es/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoAI</span></a></p>
jabsonik<p><a href="https://www.404media.co/80s-nostalgia-ai-slop-is-boomerfying-the-masses-for-a-past-that-never-existed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/80s-nostalgia-ai-s</span><span class="invisible">lop-is-boomerfying-the-masses-for-a-past-that-never-existed</span></a></p><p>’ These videos are awful AI-generated <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a>, yes, but it’s more than that. Reactionary nostalgia, a desire to return to a fake past or a time when you were young and things were better, is part of why the world is so fucked right now. It is, literally, the basis of <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a>. Worse, these videos about the “past” tell us a lot about our present and future: one where <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> encourages our worst impulses and allows users to escape from reality into a slopified world. ’</p><p><a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/AIslop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIslop</span></a></p>
Wuzzy<p><a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> auto-translation sucks. This is just one example of many.</p><p><a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/FAIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAIL</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>translation</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>Here we go… <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> peddling their <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slop</span></a> trying to generate revenue before the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BubbleBurst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BubbleBurst</span></a> . Ballsy move, you got to hand to them, petulant pricks. How long before VC pulls out do you think?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman</span></a></p>
Amᵃᵖanda<p>The <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> project has been dealing with <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a> for almost a decade. It's sooooo bad. It's so rubbish. The quality is bad. It never meets what the salesmen promise. It takes much more time to fix it up than it would have taken to do it properly.</p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>BBC: Fans loved her new album. The thing was, she hadn’t released one. “The 10 tracks had names such as Sprig of Thyme and Silent Hearth – which were ‘uncannily close’ to titles she might choose. It was something that [Emily] Portman, who won a BBC Folk Award in 2013, found ‘really creepy’. When she clicked to listen, the voice – supposedly hers – was a bit off but sang in ‘a folk style […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/23/bbc-fans-loved-her-new-album-the-thing-was-she-hadnt-released-one/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/23/bbc-fans-loved-her-new-album-the-thing-was-she-hadnt-released-one/</a></p>
krig<p>The site is in Swedish so I don't know if it's possible to shop from other places, but <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@bjoreman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bjoreman</span></a></span> drew this amazing slop goblin and you can get it on a t-shirt. Or an apron.</p><p><a href="https://kodsnack.myspreadshop.se/slop+goblin-A68a762d20d489535e15e9bf9?productType=812&amp;sellable=XN5ZZ74mOxc44mmxyY9q-812-7&amp;appearance=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://kodsnack.myspreadshop.se/slop+goblin-A68a762d20d489535e15e9bf9?productType=812&amp;sellable=XN5ZZ74mOxc44mmxyY9q-812-7&amp;appearance=1</a></p><p><a href="https://goto.liten.app/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://goto.liten.app/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a> <a href="https://goto.liten.app/tags/slopgoblin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slopgoblin</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>As long as <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MS</span></a> doesn’t retrofit <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a> to older (Office2010 for example) applications, I’m safe… yay :)</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/761338/microsoft-excel-ai-copilot-spreadsheet-cell-filling" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/news/761338/micro</span><span class="invisible">soft-excel-ai-copilot-spreadsheet-cell-filling</span></a></p>
Fredrik Björeman<p>The brothers Grimm drove a thorough, brutal, and successful campagin to eradicate all traces of stories about the slop goblin, sparing generations of children from having their creative spark needlessly snuffed out. <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slop</span></a></p>
Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻<p>The amount of AI slop returned when searching for developer topics has gotten so bad that I've started limiting my searches to results from before 2024. It helps a lot, but RIP Internet ... 😒</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dev</span></a></p>