Not sure if this is too NSFW or not. If it is, will remove.
This Tweet is fantastic:
Please stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3. We will start banning those who do without disclosing.
There are plenty of resources online to learn how to debug and code instead of generating slop that you don’t understand and that doesn’t work.
This guy has been around on Hacker News for a long time. He runs the “famous” pelican riding a bicycle benchmark every time a new model is released. The last six months in LLMs in five minutes. This is a post about his talk at PyCon this year. The undertone of this article is that laptop sized open models that don’t require ridiculous hardware to run are getting very very good.
One of the weirder stories I’ve seen lately: The Rise of Anti-AI AI Slop - The Atlantic
I sent direct messages to many of the slop-producing accounts—so many, in fact, that Facebook locked my account, and I had to submit a video selfie proving that I am a human being. Exactly one content producer responded to my queries, a poster who had put up fake images of Pennsylvania cornfields, rivers, and shoreline (Lake Erie, I guess?) with anti-data-center messages. “I actually live in Bangladesh,” the account runner told me. “But Pennsylvania has always been one of the U.S. states I’ve found most interesting online.”
Meta’s monetization program, which rewards views, comments, and other interactions, has long encouraged low-quality, lowest-common-denominator swill. The pages currently posting AI slop about AI also post AI slop about other geographically targeted mundanities, such as the humidity in Alabama and how confused Texas drivers get by roundabouts. (An analysis that was posted recently by a pseudonymous Substacker found that a lot of this U.S.-state-themed engagement bait comes from Bangladesh.) “I imagine the people that are posting this content are in most cases dispassionate to the issues they’re posting about,” Ajder said. “They just want to see the numbers going up each month on their payments on the platform.” The anti-AI slop creator who claimed that he has always had a thing for Pennsylvania also told me that he doesn’t really care about U.S. data centers and is interested simply in sharing “relatable” content. (He also said that he is supporting his family with his monetized social-media accounts, but he declined to share any proof of that income and did not provide a way for me to verify his identity when I requested it.)
Whatever the source of anti-AI AI slop, thousands of people care enough about the issue it addresses to share and comment on the slop. They have legitimate concerns about the mysterious facilities straining their local utilities, taking over large open spaces, and likely providing very few long-term jobs to their community in exchange. In some cases, they may even understand that the images are fake and repost them anyway.
…
Some of the people who are most put off by those buildings’ presence are getting taken in by AI output. That may be ironic, but it also shows how right they are to say that the world they’ve known and understood is disappearing.
This might just be me but if I was an Experience Director I like to think I would not want any employees or customers to have to Experience any facet of generative AI. It’s really telling that any time a corp provides clarity on AI use they always have the same weird vague “for the greater good” response while also underselling its impact on the final product (then why even use it?). It’s almost like they don’t have any other arguments to fall back on.
A well-deserved cringe moment when PR interjected (I’ve had this happen to me in interviews, very normal, but can’t say I’ve been shut down with this energy before). It’s a shame though, because that was a great question that I would love to know the answer to.