Rich Hickey's epic rant against the AI slop industrial complex
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f
"AI slop is permeating everything, but it’s particularly noxious when dealing with images from the deep. We generally know what a car looks like and can tease out, for now, the telltale signs of AI image replication. But very few people have the necessary context or expertise to tell if a weird fish or crab from 2000 meters deep is genuine or just another hallucination from the slop farm."
Well, that's new.
I reported a YouTube video on December 27th—one of those AI-generated videos pretending to be a celebrity (in this case, Jimmy Kimmel) talking about current affairs—for impersonation, and Google just let me know they have pulled it.
Sounds like Google are actually starting to listen when people mention that celebrities don't like having their likeness used without their permission.
It would be better if they understood that viewers don't like being fed crap, but here we are.
Well, that's new.
I reported a YouTube video on December 27th—one of those AI-generated videos pretending to be a celebrity (in this case, Jimmy Kimmel) talking about current affairs—for impersonation, and Google just let me know they have pulled it.
Sounds like Google are actually starting to listen when people mention that celebrities don't like having their likeness used without their permission.
It would be better if they understood that viewers don't like being fed crap, but here we are.
Why we're committed to downranking AI slop from all search results on Kagi, as well as doubling down on our community-supported SlopStop initiative:
(More about SlopStop here: https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop)
Why we're committed to downranking AI slop from all search results on Kagi, as well as doubling down on our community-supported SlopStop initiative:
(More about SlopStop here: https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop)
Rich Hickey's epic rant against the AI slop industrial complex
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f
A remarkably prophetic 1923 cartoon depicting how a creative process would be automated in 2023.
#cartoon #tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
A remarkably prophetic 1923 cartoon depicting how a creative process would be automated in 2023.
#cartoon #tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
That's Late Stage Capitalism for you:
"More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.
The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop.
Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.
The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.
The findings are a snapshot of a rapidly expanding industry that is saturating big social media platforms – from X to Meta to YouTube – and defining a new era of content: decontextualised, addictive and international.
A Guardian analysis this year found that nearly 10% of YouTube’s fastest-growing channels were AI slop, racking up millions of views despite the platform’s efforts to curb “inauthentic content”."
New Evidence Reveals Halo Studios Going All In On GenAI, Xbox Studios Hiring ML Experts for Gears and Forza As Well
https://clawsomegamer.com/new-evidence-reveals-halo-studios-going-all-in-on-generative-ai/
That's Late Stage Capitalism for you:
"More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.
The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop.
Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.
The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.
The findings are a snapshot of a rapidly expanding industry that is saturating big social media platforms – from X to Meta to YouTube – and defining a new era of content: decontextualised, addictive and international.
A Guardian analysis this year found that nearly 10% of YouTube’s fastest-growing channels were AI slop, racking up millions of views despite the platform’s efforts to curb “inauthentic content”."
A new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube's feed may consist of AI slop
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop-report-the-global-rise-of-low-quality-ai-videos/
#HackerNews #AISlop #YouTubeResearch #LowQualityVideos #DigitalContent #AIImpact
