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The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were
- The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were
- A year’s worth of rain fell in a single day, and in some towns more than 490 litres a square metre fell in eight hours.
- The photograph was so vivid, so uncannily sharp and unreal, that it looked to viewers like something that they could have faked themselves using Midjourney or Dall-E or a host of other generative AI tools.
- Social media are being overrun by what has come to be known as “AI slop” – images and text created using generative AI tools.
- Meta’s profits depend on keeping users of its platforms “engaged” – that is, spending as much time as possible on them – and if AI slop helps to achieve that goal, what’s the problem?
- Creators of AI slop profit from feeding the engagement algorithms of social media platforms, which in turn profit from the increasing “engagement” that viral images attract.
- A positive feedback loop is created between creators of AI slop and social media platforms.
- The increasing reliance of social media platforms on AI-generated content is causing concern.
- There are worries that the use of AI generated content will undermine the credibility of information that people see online.
- AI slop is also profitable for those who create it.
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