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AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures.
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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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I posit the central flaw is the engagement system, which was AI driven long before LLM/diffusion was public. The slop is made because it sells in that screwed up, toxic feed.
If engagement-driven social media doesn't die in fire, the human race will.