Niklas Pivic
@pivic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/#coprophagic-ai

A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:

'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."

But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'

Don't use Google for search.

#google#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#AISlop#CoryDoctorow #search #slop
Gytis Repečka
@gytisrepecka@social.gyt.is  ·  activity timestamp last month

Attention server admins! Yesterday I've read a post by @simon_brooke how nasty AI scraper bots are attacking his self-hosted @forgejo instance. Soon after I'm seeing unusual, periodic traffic spikes on mine and again - dominated by OpenAI, but some other freeloaders too:

20.171.207.41 GPTBot/1.2

85.208.96.211 SemrushBot/7~bl

54.36.148.64 AhrefsBot/7.0

114.119.139.53 PetalBot

With GPTBot and SemrushBot attacking hardest blobcatscared

They've been hammering my little server periodically today as well, slowing down my instance dramatically as if I was experiencing malicious DDoS attack blobcatfearful Well, in a sense it is one blobcatnotlikethis

Watch out - it seems corporate AI techbros learned to scrape forgejo content and starts doing it on a massive scale blobcatoutage Remember when @Codeberg was (and repeatedly is) hit?

For now blocked IP ranges and User-Agent combinations, not sure for how long that will be enough blobcatumm

Please boost for visibility and be prepared!

#forgejo #developerlife #coding #attack #techbros #aislop #openai #bots #ddos
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

｢ While polyester took a few decades to lose its appeal, GenAI is already feeling a bit cheesy. We're only a few years into the AI Revolution, and Facebook and X are filled to the brim with “AI slop.” Everyone around the world has near-equal access to these tools, and low-skilled South and Southeast Asian content farmers are the most active creators because their wages are low enough for the platforms' economic incentives to be attractive ｣

https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

#ai #genai #aislop
Dash Remover
@dashremover@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

absolutely obsessed with the idea of a sword fight pausing so a character can say

"ChatGPT said: I am but a reflection of your inner turmoil."

anime is saved #aislop #subtitles #chatgpt 🍜💬

maco
maco boosted
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🤡 Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations • Retraction Watch

｢ Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors ｣

retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

☢️ Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content • Ars Technica

｢ "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI media uniquely human ｣

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/why-one-man-is-archiving-human-made-content-from-before-the-ai-explosion/

#ai #aislop #genai

Kathy Reid
Kathy Reid boosted
Anthony Baker
@AnthonyBaker@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Fucking hell. To get their products and services into AI chatbot responses, companies are auto-generating slop and posting to the known SOURCES of chatbot data — Reddit, etc. — to try and game the system.

Need to come up with a better term for how people are trying to "game" this new age of LLM/chat/voice-based interfaces, where the traditional web is acting less as a direct interface and more as a secondary data store.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/

#aislop #eshittification #ai
Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺
@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

My daughter just came up with a great exercise: challenge your students to find the title of your PhD using ONLY LLMs (no Google allowed). If any of them manage, they get gummy bears 😃

I asked five different models, and got five different answers, all five of which were completely wrong 😂

#AI#ChatGPT#AISlop#LLM#LLMFail#Education #HigherEducation#AcademicChatter

Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.