AI slop corroded online discourse across platforms by 2024

Evidence

This slop soon began to corrode the entire online experience. On platforms like X, users were inundated with AI-generated nonsense replies. Authors on Amazon competed not only with each other, but against AI-written “study guides” to their books filled with auto-generated dummy text. AI researchers used AI tools to write academic papers, turning their entire field into a recursive loop. By 2024, more than half of LinkedIn’s long-form posts were AI-enhanced, making professional networking indistinguishable from automated PR. AI even threatened to harm itself, as models trained on synthetic, AI-generated data. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 699

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