Thank you. These Fact-Checks really ought to be locked as the top comment for all of this AI-slop.
In a world where bots and agents coordinate full posting and commenting on socials, these innocent and silly memes can and ARE often part of a much bigger picture.
Whether it be astro-turfing ideas with questionable agendas, or further training AI by analysing human response to these memes en-masse; we are also being trained.
AI-slop is here to stay and is only going to get more refined, so fact-check and question the origins of what you see online (Something that should be done regardless of AI).
It's like that experiment with the chimps in the cage, with a banana on a ladder in its center.
When the chimps go for the banana, a scientist sprays them all with a hose.
The chimps quickly learn not to go for the banana, and attack any who do.
Then a new chimp is brought in, and goes for the banana.
Whenever he goes for the banana, he's viciously attacked by the other chimps, so he learns not to go for it, but never correlates WHY.
Slowly, new chimps are brought in and the originals are removed. All the chimps get the same treatment and at this point none of them have ever been sprayed or even seen the hose. They just know not to go for the banana.
My point there being that like the chimps in the cage, humans very much display this kind of social adaptation. Across generations, this is why we see things like en-shitification, we just get used to and accept how things are, with no personal context for how things used to be.
It's why a company like YouTube can go from no ads, then 5 second but skippable ads, to now the current 2 minute long unskippable ads we see today. It just takes time.
This post turned into a bit of a tangent so for the sake of cohesion I'll boil it all back down to one word: AWARENESS!
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