"The threat of AI slop and some forms of brainrot is in how they have been normalized and may come across as harmless fun. But slop and brainrot prey on the laziest areas of our mental faculties. Researchers have shown how the “illusory truth effect” makes people more likely to believe in claims or imagery the more often they encounter it. AI tools make it easy for bad-faith actors to construct a fake enemy or situation that supports their underlying political beliefs or goals. Seeing is believing, studies have shown, even when the viewer has been explicitly told that a video is fake.
Meanwhile, “information of any kind, in enough quantities, becomes noise,” writes researcher and artist Eryk Salvaggio. The prevalence of AI slop is “a symptom of information exhaustion, and an increased human dependency on algorithmic filters to sort the world on our behalf.” And, as Doug Shapiro notes, as this noise drowns out the signal on the web, including social networks, the value of trust will rise — and so will corporate and political efforts to fabricate and manipulate trust."—Liam Curtis
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