"Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-adopt-speedy-deletion-policy-for-ai-slop-articles/

#Wikipedia#AI#GenerativeAI#AISlop#ContentModeration

I am an old man. I regularly yell at clouds. "Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/elvis-is-alive-how-ai-stunts-modern.htmltracked ) #elvis #solaris #unix #ping #networking#AI #mythmaking #artificialintelligence #aislop #history

I am an old man. I regularly yell at clouds. "Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/elvis-is-alive-how-ai-stunts-modern.htmltracked ) #elvis #solaris #unix #ping #networking#AI #mythmaking #artificialintelligence #aislop #history

"Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-adopt-speedy-deletion-policy-for-ai-slop-articles/

#Wikipedia#AI#GenerativeAI#AISlop#ContentModeration

With #DuckDuckGo being #enshittified, I just randomly decided to see if some ancient search engines are still alive. Sure enough, there are a few throwback engines still going strong.

#Lycos: Alive and well! I don't see much enshittification, it's clean.

#Dogpile: Also seems clean and functional

#Excite: Clean, but has ads in the results.
#enshittification #aislop

We would love to hear from people who take a critically informed, engaged stance, steering the futures of #AI away from #AIhype or #AIslop to genuinely interesting places oriented beyond #LLMs.

@DAIR @alex @emilymbender @timnitGebru

Good to see @lastweektonight's piece about #AiSlop on the public internet (don't think its geo-blocked)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

Worth reflecting and sharing

📰 Politico's Owner Is Embarrassing Its Journalists With Garbled AI Slop

"Nobody in the company has to explain in the company why she or he is using AI to do something — whether to prepare a presentation or analyze a document," Dopfner said in a speech, as quoted by Status. "You only have to explain if you didn't use AI."

https://futurism.com/politico-owner-embarrassing-ai-slop

#aislop #journalism #genai

📰 Politico's Owner Is Embarrassing Its Journalists With Garbled AI Slop

"Nobody in the company has to explain in the company why she or he is using AI to do something — whether to prepare a presentation or analyze a document," Dopfner said in a speech, as quoted by Status. "You only have to explain if you didn't use AI."

https://futurism.com/politico-owner-embarrassing-ai-slop

#aislop #journalism #genai

Raga, per favore, PER FAVORE togliete Spotify che ogni giorno ne salta fuori una nuova.

https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/

#ai #aiSlop

More AI, thx Mozilla

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/firefox-141-release-ai-tabs-linux-memory

#ai #aislop #firefox

Raga, per favore, PER FAVORE togliete Spotify che ogni giorno ne salta fuori una nuova.

https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/

#ai #aiSlop

🤦 OpenAI's New AI Agent Takes One Hour to Order Food and Recommends Visiting a Baseball Stadium in the Middle of the Ocean

https://futurism.com/openai-new-ai-agent-food-stadium

#openai #genai #aislop

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

⚠️ YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows • TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/youtube-prepares-crackdown-on-mass-produced-and-repetitive-videos-as-concern-over-ai-slop-grows/

#aislop #youtube #misinformation

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

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

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

Watch out - it seems corporate AI techbros learned to scrape content and starts doing it on a massive scale 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

Please boost for visibility and be prepared!

#forgejo #developerlife #coding #attack #techbros #aislop #openai #bots #ddos