Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.

This morning, I checked out Pinterest for the first time in forever and saw an image purporting to be a LEGO set that was obviously AI generated - yuck!

Then on Reddit's popular page there was a video compilation of people saving children from terrible falls = AI slop.

YouTube's homepage: a short video showing a child and her dog covered in mud = AI slop.

What was I thinking? I should visit #Lemmy and #PeerTube instead...

#NoAI

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@_elena yeah, I do see a raise of AI slop everywhere except Fediverse. I mean, why? Why waste so much resources for something that doesn't have any value. I went to my barbershop to make my haircut and on TV they had YT endless music stream, but instead of music clips they were looping AI generated stuff. I'm asking why? Just why 🤦‍♂️

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@jan awww that's terrible. I'm thinking of the devastating effects on the environment because of the energy required to create that crap... and then I think of my child and the planet we're leaving her... it's just so pointless and enraging and... I have no words 😭

I've become a total Karen but I don't care. If someone in my family fires up ChatGPT during a discussion, I always go: "do you know how many bottles of water your request required? Think of the environment!"

[ambergrey@mastodon.social]

@_elena it’s so frustrating having to be vigilant all the time to avoid ai stuff.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@ambergrey I couldn't believe the comment section on Reddit... people complimenting the rescues as if they were real... when they were so obviously AI generated. RIP critical thinking 😭

[transicorn@mastodon.social]

@_elena There are definitely accounts here that post #AISlop images. Many of the ones i see are using them along with the #infosec hashtag which i follow.

While it's certainly better than many other places, there are people who for some reason or another will post links to articles, blogs or whatever and instead of allowing the link preview to generate, will add some AI image.

Usually these are very small accounts here doing it, but i've muted a few large ones doing it as well.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@transicorn what I love about chronological feeds and the fact there's no advertising or recommendations shoved in front of our faces is that we can avoid all that in the fediverse... or just quickly hit the "block" or "mute" button.

Not the case on other platforms unfortunately 😭

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@_elena
I've mostly whipped YT's recommendation algorithm into shape - keyword being "mostly". And the fact I had to do so at all annoys me.

[transicorn@mastodon.social]

@_elena Yes, that definitely is a huge plus and reason why i've preferred the fediverse for a long time.

I've tried to use IG, i spent 2 years checking out Bluesky until a few months ago but i've used Mastodon and other ActivityPub projects for 8 years now and if this/these places didn't exist in this way, i'm honestly unsure if i'd bother at all with social media.

Mastodon's chronological feeds and lack of advertising make it a great place to be. :)

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@ozzelot when I'm on YT now I always rush to click on "Subscriptions" to avoid the recommended videos...

[melroy@mastodon.melroy.org]

@_elena YouTube is recently going nuts with their shorts being AI slop indeed. It drives me crazy.

[melroy@mastodon.melroy.org]

@_elena @ozzelot I still can't disable shorts in my yt overview.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@transicorn yes, the best place to be 🥰

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@melroy my mother showed AI slop to my 4-year-old... you should have seen my gentle but firm lecture 😅

(thankfully it was only one time and my little one - who has very limited screen time - forgot all about it)

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@melroy @ozzelot I click on the 3 dots to say "see less Shorts" but they always come back... 😒

[steggy@sunny.garden]

@_elena @transicorn it’s kind of a good problem, but my Mastodon feed is so interesting that I scroll a lot more than I should. Every few months I go look at other sites, and I last maybe 30 seconds before I say “this is garbage” and put my phone down.

[arthurprazeres@mastodon.social]

@_elena i didn't know peertube yet, thx for sharing

[thefwguy@techhub.social]

@_elena What really infuriate me is that I love the AI technology, it is so powerful and useful but NOT the chatGPT crap style !!!
For the 99.9999% people use these resources to generate useless crap.
I can see in very small use case the necessity to have something generated by AI but let be honest, 99% of people use them in the worse possible way.
Too many uses AI as an "oracle" assuming it can give "answers" but is NOT the nature of AI to do so!
The bottom line is that to have real benefits from AI, who use it must know what is doing and what the right answer is.
Ignorant people should not be allowed to use an AI and totally agree, the cost to use AI is enormous, it should be illegal to use AI to generate useless crap. Make the people who use it to REALLY pay what it cost.
AI should be used for useful things, scientific research, tech improvements, embedded AI, etc. and should be used by people who knows what they are doing.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@steggy @transicorn same 😅

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@thefwguy perfectly said 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌