Meta adviser predicts tsunami of ‘AI slop’ even as Zuckerberg grasps for AI market share

It’s over for human-generated content.

That seems to be the conclusion of Meta’s AI consultant, Henry Ajder, who recently warned that the internet will soon be taken over by “AI slop” — insta-generated, low-quality, noisy, and derivative text, video, images, and even influencers.

All to make numbers go up while also crushing signal fidelity, creativity, and information quality.

Meanwhile, Meta corporation remains locked in its own historical pattern of scrambling to retain relevance in the digital cash-grab — now manifested as the race to AI market dominance. This race presents a circular conundrum: The more output from AI tools you create, the more AI tools you need to manage it.

If Ajder is correct, then using the internet is about to get even more tiresome. For how long,

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