A. Rivera2d ago

> Gen Alpha Boys Are Ditching Real Girls for AI Companions (and It Could Ruin Their Lives, Expert Says) https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-alpha-boys-are-ditching-real-girls-for-ai-companions-and-it-could-ruin-their-lives-expert-says/

FTA: "Velotta points to the impossible cultural squeeze these kids are dealing with—told simultaneously to project alpha dominance and to shut up and make space. An AI that welcomes you without judgment starts to look pretty good by comparison."

#AISlop #sloperator #cogsucker #tech #dating #relationships #boys #men

Gen Alpha Boys Are Ditching Real Girls for AI Companions (and It Could Ruin Their Lives, Expert Says)

Gen Alpha boys are turning to AI companions over real girlfriends, and it could have seriously negative long-term effects.

VICE
A. Rivera2d ago

Hasbro releases AI versions of its iconic characters, including Transformers https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/hasbro-ai-characters-9.7223872

Why you might ask? FTA: "The company said it started the initiative partly because "millions of consumers are already encountering unauthorized versions of popular characters across chat, voice, gaming, and content creation platforms."

So they needed their own version of #AISlop to prevent any other #sloperator or #cogsucker on their turf.

#tech #Hasbro

Hasbro releases AI versions of its iconic characters | CBC News

Optimus Prime and Megatron just became robots in more than one sense. That's because Hasbro, the American toy and games giant, released artificial intelligence versions of 12 popular characters — a move experts say could bring potential risks to kids along with the fun.

CBC
Show threadA. Rivera2d ago

Fuck, even the #USGovernment is paying for #AISlop.

> The Pentagon is rewriting how it buys AI — control of the future of warfare https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/06/the-pentagon-is-rewriting-how-it-buys-ai-control-of-the-future-of-warfare/

#sloperator #cogsucker #Pentagon #warfare #military #tech

The Pentagon is rewriting how it buys AI — control of the future of warfare

Instead of monolithic, all-in-one platforms, the Pentagon is shifting toward a model that looks more like modern cloud architecture.

Federal News Network
A. Rivera2d ago

> AI’s environmental costs threaten water, land and climate https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167658

Yea, but #academia and #HigherEd, including #librarians who should know better, say "fuck that shit! We want and will play for #AISlop tools for our institutions because..."

#sloperator #cogsucker #tech #environment #UnitedNations #NGO

AI’s environmental costs threaten water, land and climate

Artificial Intelligence is not only responsible for worrying amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases: the technology's environmental footprint is also expanding at a pace that could strain the planet’s natural resources.

UN News
Show threadA. Rivera3d ago

Side note: And speaking of #AISlop, in light of the webinar I just watched, one of the presenters who was a professor (not at U of Chicago) mentioned their campus had some #sloperator enterprise system they paid for.

Ugh.

> AI Tools at UChicago
https://president.uchicago.edu/From-the-President/Announcements/AI-Tools-at-UChicago

#cogsucker #academia #HigherEd #BadEconomy

Show threadA. Rivera3d ago

Takeaway: Skills #librarians need to keep and do:

> Prompt engineering
> Verifying and evaluating information and sources (librarians have always done this and need to keep doing it).
> Spend as little time as possible using #AISlop (some half hearted acknowledgement of the environmental costs).

#sloperator #cogsucker #academia #HigherEd

Show threadA. Rivera3d ago

Oh dear #CosmicJoker, did that presenter just say about using a lesson making students to take handwritten notes, re: a text, and then say student used #AISlop to sum up the reading then make notes by hand from that and submit photo of the notes? And this was OK?

FFS.

#cogsucker #sloperator

Show threadA. Rivera3d ago

@VCP CHOICE and ProQuest.

Having said that, not the first webinar with #AISlop topic I've seen recently with similar pattern.

#sloperator #cogsucker

A. Rivera3d ago

#Listening to webinar on AI in academia, and it is pretty much all how wonderful it is, the things it can do, there is an AI for this or that.

Strong sell, but not a peep about the ethics, environmental impacts, AI stealing content, etc.

#AISlop #cogsucker #sloperator #academia #HigherEd

A. Rivera3d ago

#BarelySatire

> College Professor  Pretty Sure   Student Using    AI To Refuse Advances https://theonion.com/college-professor-pretty-sure-student-using-ai-to-refuse-advances/

#academia #HigherEd #AISlop #sloperator #cogsucker #tech

College Professor  Pretty Sure   Student Using    AI To Refuse Advances

EAST LANSING, MI—Calling the 21-year-old’s replies to his emails and text messages “rote” and “overly formal,” local professor Lowell Sterbenz told reporters Friday he was “pretty sure” student Evelyn Atwater was using AI to refuse his sexual advances. “It really is a shame with these undergrads these days,” said the 63-year-old Sterbenz, an art history professor […]

The Onion