doctorambient<p>MSN seems to have the full text of that WaPo story on weird/shocking crap getting into social feeds, but a deeper take is <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>404mediaco</span></a></span>'s piece:</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute</span><span class="invisible">-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/</span></a></p><p>If you want it, here is MSN's version of the Post piece: <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/dark-and-strange-content-is-slipping-through-social-media-s-cracks/ar-AA1APY68" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/</span><span class="invisible">dark-and-strange-content-is-slipping-through-social-media-s-cracks/ar-AA1APY68</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bruteforceattack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bruteforceattack</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smalgorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smalgorithms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>