*said in allegro*

♪ Content, content everywhere.
Bait and switch and shovelware.
Farmers cranking out the wares.
AI multiplying spares.
Content, content everywhere. ♪

© 2026 by Big Blue Gnu. Some rights reserved.

#AISlop #baitAndSwitch #clickbait #content #contentFarms #listicles #poem #shovelware

Pinterest’s endless scroll is getting clogged with AI‑generated pictures that look more like filler than inspiration. Bill Ready and Mantzarlis warn that content farms are turning the platform into a static visual dump. Read the WIRED deep‑dive on the rise of AI slop and what it means for creators. #PinterestAI #AIslop #ContentFarms #StaticVisuals

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/pinterest-users-say-aigenerated-images-are-flooding-their-imageheavy

YouTube: From Stage to Simulation

#AITraining #DigitalLabor #YouTubeShift #ContentFarms #TheInternetIsCrack #PlatformControl

The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’ seems to be AI Phrase Finder which makes the claim on the basis of “our dataset of 50,000 ChatGPT responses”. No more information is provided about this dataset. There’s also no information provided about what constitutes the ‘most common words’ within it. Presumably the most common words are ‘the’ (etc) which suggests they are using a different standard of what constitutes a common word. But they don’t say what this is!

This is not a reliable source which raises the question of why this claim spread as widely as it did. There’s an interesting bibliometrics debate which suggests this might not be 100% nonsense. But as far as I can see the claim spread through a network of (possibly AI generated!) content farms, as well as being credulously shared through social media. I’m not saying that ChatGPT doesn’t have tells, only that establishing them authoritatively is a methodologically complex undertaking which would only establish deeply imperfect results.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/06/the-original-source-of-the-claim-that-chatgpt-overuses-the-word-delve/

#AI #ChatGPT #contentFarms #delve

Carl Miller of Demos' Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, on "disinformation", hackers, content farms, memes, and power in the digital age.

#disinformation #contentFarms #hacking #cybersecurity #socialMedia #London

Dear #YouTube,

I enjoy wasting some of my day watching some of the content that folks create and publish on your site from time to time.

But please, for the love of RNG, can I please have some way for your algorithm to understand that I have been saying "Don't Recommend Channel" to literal scores of "shitty, badly edited text to speech or just really bad narrators read #Reddit posts" #ContentFarms and just.. maybe stop recommending that kind of channel time and time and time and time again?

XOXO,
Me

〝All these sites, inoffensive or onerous, produce content because they reap the rewards of so-called programmatic advertisements.〞
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-artificial-intelligence-ai-generated-websites-elections-transparency-20231117-yq3u65zhibfslfwv44y6p3t2o4-story.html

#AI #genAI #contentFarms #advertising #elections