about two-thirds of YouTube ads are just AI slop or AI impersonation fakes!

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

about two-thirds of YouTube ads are just AI slop or AI impersonation fakes!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@pfefferle this is the first week I'm noticing AI slop absolutely EVERYWHERE. I... just... can't... (that's why I seek refuge here)

[ricmac@mastodon.social]

@_elena @pfefferle Every time I open Facebook (which I do from time to time for family/friends updates and my town’s community page), I see so much AI slop in my feed. It’s so offputting and there’s really no way to get rid of it, since you don’t control the algorithm in any way. Unfortunately it must be getting engagement from most FB users, otherwise they wouldn’t keep ramping it up. But as you say Elena, it’s yet more motivation to increase time on the fediverse.

[bekopharm@indieweb.social]

@pfefferle see, with an ad blocker on the other hand you get to see that two-thirds of YouTube are just AI slop as well nowadays 🤷

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

@ricmac @_elena that is what I am asking myself all the time: are people not annoyed by that, or are we already at the point where AI interacts with AI and AI thinks that this is "real" interaction?

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

@bekopharm I have not yet found an ad blocker that works with youtube ads!? can you recommend one??

[jaypeach53@mastodon.social]

@pfefferle @ricmac @_elena I echo that, what’s Facebook? Oh, the webshyte that peddled bullshit ads and useless cruft, far removed from its former glory days before enshittification took place.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@jaypeach53 @pfefferle @ricmac quit it in January 2017 and never looked back…