'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.'
'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.'
So, if you don't want Calibre to have an LLM, I believe your point of no return is version 8.11. 
Luckily, since Debian Stable is reasonable, the repository still has 8.5.
The thing I would recommend is if you use Calibre regularly and do not want any "ai" garbage, mark your version now in APT and hope that the @grimthorpe 's Clbre fork project continues to advance (I have hope) so that it will make a newer version of Calibre without LLM's easy to install.
For the time being, my Debian (and Debian based distro) friends, you can mark the current version to be safe.
Just run:
sudo apt-mark hold calibre
And to check that it worked, run:
apt-mark showhold
#Clbre #Calibre #Debian #Debian13 #APT #ebooks #Kindle #noai #ai #chatgpt #openai #Google #Gemini #stoptheslop #slop #GNULinux #GNU #Linux
Monstrous AI Slop imitating famous people is OUT OF CONTROL on YouTube
It's a horrific scourge. Realistic AI imitations of celebrities, politicians, and more putting words in their mouths that they never said are flooding #YouTube. Sometimes the "Altered or synthetic content" label is visible if you bother to look at the description (which takes extra effort on YT TV interfaces in particular) but the similar warning banner that used to appear for some seconds overlaid on the videos no longer seems to routinely appear.
#Google is creating a monster, and sooner rather than later that monster is likely to turn on its maker.
@lauren #AI now stands for #ArtificialIdiot. And a very dangerous one!
though some searches reveal disturbing news of human remains found in a freezer in Tempe, Arizona, which is unrelated to standard appliance use but highlights extreme scenarios
@molly0xfff I think you forgot the #slop tag
2026 is the year of #AI sobriety - a Quiet #Rebellion in a World full of #Slop
- by persistent bloom
Invidious:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=y39n3Mn6jac
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39n3Mn6jac)
"Does this allow me to hear myself think? Or does it make it harder to hear what voice is my own?"
I absolutely love this! 💯 So many good points!
I also highly agree with the usefulness of smaller open language models.
#AISober #AISobriety #LLM #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #Art #Philosophy #CriticalThinking
Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/
#HackerNews #RobPike #AI #Slop #ActsOfKindness #TechNews #HackerNews
So, if you don't want Calibre to have an LLM, I believe your point of no return is version 8.11. Luckily, since Debian Stable is reasonable, the repository still has 8.5.
The thing I would recommend is if you use Calibre regularly and do not want any "ai" garbage, mark your version now in APT and hope that the @grimthorpe 's Clbre fork project continues to advance (I have hope) so that it will make a newer version of Calibre without LLM's easy to install.
For the time being, my Debian (and Debian based distro) friends, you can mark the current version to be safe.
Just run:
sudo apt-mark hold calibre
And to check that it worked, run:
apt-mark showhold
#Clbre #Calibre #Debian #Debian13 #APT #ebooks #Kindle #noai #ai #chatgpt #openai #Google #Gemini #stoptheslop #slop #GNULinux #GNU #Linux
I'm tired of Hacker News slop
https://blog.absurdpirate.com/im-tired-of-hacker-news-slop/
#HackerNews #HackerNews #Slop #Tired #TechCommunity #Commentary #OnlineDiscussion
Merriam-Webster crowns “slop” word of the year as #AI content floods Internet
Like most tools, #generativeAI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major #dictionary notices, you know it’s become a cultural phenomenon.
#MerriamWebster #slop #aislop
Update. #SocArXiv (@socarxiv) is dealing with a similar problem by requiring submitters to have #ORCIDs and tightening its focus on the social sciences.
https://socopen.org/2025/11/19/socarxiv-submission-rule-changes/
Update. Here's another piece arguing that the best solution to this problem is to curb #OpenAccess itself.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004851
"The very measures designed to fight fraud (open access) simultaneously power new forms of problematic activities (GenAI-assisted fast churn science). Robust evidence is emerging that open access datasets, especially in health and medicine, are being exploited in this way by paper mills and other bad actors…We suggest that unrestricted open access will continue to compromise trust in research using exploited assets…[Our recommended] safeguards would not be incompatible with #OpenScience, but would protect open practices and maintain the ethical and scientific benefits; without such changes to reassert the balance between Open Science and research integrity, our expectation is that the credibility of research based on open access data sources will continue to decline."
«a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts and promote products has been hacked. The hack reveals what products the AI-generated accounts are promoting, often without the required disclosure that these are advertisements»
Nice that you can be a well-funded 'startup' to effectively just be a parasite to other 'social' companies and flood them with shit…
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/
Ich habe in einem privaten Browsertab mehrfach einen #Youtube-Beitrag von #nius geladen und die dabei eingespielte Werbung aufgezeichnet. Playlist auf Peertube:
https://video.dresden.network/w/p/f3bVxNMwg4VdEKgfaT7TKa?playlistPosition=1
Die Spots sind komplett oder zum Großteil KI-generiert und bewerben Produkte wie
Potenzmittel für "Stiefsöhne", "legale" Waffen und wundersame elektrische Heizgeräte.
Das sagt sowohl etwas über die vom Algorithmus unterstellte Zielgruppe als auch über den Zustand des Mediensystems.
Die Videos können gern als Anschauungsmaterial verwendet werden um Menschen Medienkompetenz beizubringen.
This might be an interesting topic for one of the next episodes of @hakendran (by @gavinkarlmeier)
Thanks @leberwurstsaft for the link.
As I document here https://social.tchncs.de/@cark/115627862677252796 I think AI-generated #SLOP-Ads seem to become an increasing problem (and are hard to monitor due to their personalized and just-in-time serving)
The Guardian: Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
(via @cdarwin )
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers?
Turns out, Stop the Slop has been a slogan for a year already.
FYI, slop = AI generated crap.
#Mozilla MoCo hires new anti-user CEO, who promptly doubles down on #Firefox as Slop Browser.
