 This 404 Media piece definitively answers the question about where all of the weird Jesus shrimp AI generated image slop on Facebook comes from, and it’s fascinating: https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/ A few of my own notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/10/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/ 3 comments
@22 I didn’t invent the term, I just helped popularize it a bit (and tried to attach “unwanted” to it in order to differentiate from more ethical uses of generative AI) https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/ In this case I’d argue that slop is in the eye of the beholder: most people would consider weird AI Facebook images slop, a smaller group apparently enjoy it (I quite enjoy some of it myself, occasionally - for the sheer weirdness of it) |
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@simon I believe you invented the term “slop” right 😁 my question is, if “slop” is “unwanted AI-generated content” why is this called “slop” when it’s obviously getting a ton of engagement? Is the claim that all the likes are bots? If it’s actually hundreds of thousands of people liking AI-generated images then isn’t it … not unwanted?