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It occurs to me that the GenAI Slop problem is exaggerated by algorithmic social media (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I just finished watching this kurzgesagt post and it got me thinking that one big piece of the puzzle for the issues caused by GenAI slop is the fact that algorithmic-driven social media like youtube, tiktok, facebook etc is driving views to slop indiscriminately and because slop is so quick and easy to make at a passable quality, it drowns out the human content and starves from from views and attention needed to sustain their advertising-based income.

If our social media were driven by what people were promised, being able to follow the people they subscribed/followed, then slop would likely not even reach their feeds,and if it did (by someone they followed switching to it silently) they could easily drop them from it.

It would actually be kinda ironic, if GenAI slop actually drives people away from algorithmic social media and towards more follow-based models.

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[–] corbin@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

Yes, and it's been this way since the 90s. The original slop algorithm, Dissociated press, was given in 1972 (in HAKMEM!) and has been operationalized since the mid-80s.