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AI Slop farms are churning out anti-AI data center memes on Facebook (www.fastcompany.com)
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[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 73 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Isn't the simplest explanation that scammers/spammers have discovered that anti AI memes perform well and they are spamming them to build page reputation?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 36 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

social creates a highly-competitive media environment

we learn that what comes out on top in a competitive environment is ragebait, and social media sees increasing amounts of it

It'd be nice if humanity were less attracted to outrage-inducing content and more to, say, catgirls or something.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You can blame American puritism for that.

No sexual content on these websites, instead we're going to stir up rage and sell everyone an AR-14.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

the fediverse in a nutshell (unmonetized environment that doesn't reward ragebait blatantly)

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 8 points 9 hours ago

we definitely need more catgirls, i don't know what that is but it sounds good. Even if my first inclination is that the majority will be femboys. Those guys work hard so I'm willing to give them their due support

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 hours ago

Even fedi still has a ragebait slop problem. Look at the abysmal quality of articles that gets posted here and look at the responses.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, gotta fuel the rage machine. That’s how you shake money out of the algorithms.

[–] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's almost so obvious that it probably gets mentioned in the linked article....

Spoiler:

!it does!<

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 hours ago

I did read the article but I called my shot before I looked.