AI 'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing

eskbanker

I reported no end of these sites that were supposed to be UK based & were not. As far as social media co's went there was no issue with them at all. Despite it being very clear that they were (& I hate using this word) nothing but scam sites.

What do you mean by 'scam' here though, as it's a notoriously ill-defined term that can be used to cover a range of activities, some unlawful but some merely sharp practice? It's one thing to disapprove of foreign sites incorporating the word 'London' into their name and/or using a .co.uk domain, but in itself it's not unlawful, even if perhaps misleading. Likewise, selling poor quality and/or overpriced goods might not be an admirable business model but again it's unlikely to be breaking any laws.

However, this is getting further away from the subject of AI slop…

born_again

Not UK site as they were implying, poor quality goods & clearly return out of UK' when your read T/C. Shop Disappears after about a month.

AI is just the way BBC seems to have taken the route on the issue.

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81896349#Comment_81896349

But that was the point I was making - those aspects of a business may not be particularly admirable but that doesn't make it a scam as such, unlike, say, fraudulently taking the money and not delivering anything.

And to me that BBC article is specifically about AI slop in social media, and you've chosen to try to link it to a separate issue of devious retailers! Granted, some of these may advertise on social media, but that's not the point of the story, which is primarily about fake content….

born_again

Given the poor quality, it could be taken that AI is not used to promote the product.

Listening to the news reports. This was bang on the usual story we hear abut these social media retailers.

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ5LfeogF9A&pp=ygUOcGxlYXNhbnQgZ3JlZW4%3D

As with most things, it’s all about consumption, the aim is to push everyone to consume as much as possible and that includes information.

Instead of taking in some information and thinking about it or using it most just consume it and then move on to the next bit of information to consume.

The irony is the internet is full of all the information you could ever need but whether it’s something that should be informative such as the news to something like social media, most information is consumed and then forgotten in an instant as a result AI generated content is mistaken for real content because the time isn’t spent to consider it.

This one is a good laugh

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1U1HMqtam90&pp

Lots of money to be made from AI so it will persist and lots of money to made out of a population who aren’t informed, if they become informed maybe they’ll look for something more fulfilling than consumption….

mta999

why aren't links clickable anymore?

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81897600#Comment_81897600

Answered on your duplicate post:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6656724/why-aren-039-t-links-clickable-any-more

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

One fixed 🙂 Forum doesn't like the other…

Jenni_D

The &pp=ygUMTWF0dCByb3NlIGFp part probably isn't needed. :)

RefluentBeans

The terms are all so vague here. Like how does one define AI? Is organising your photos in date order AI - it uses a program to be extract meta data and put them in order? What about searching the internet?

Artificial general intelligence is still very far away, but it will only get closer. Banning (or regulating these technologies) is ineffective as there is a legitimate use case for each of the technologies. Like email is used for legitimate purposes but has loads of spam and scam emails on it.

Also brings up the question of regulating tech - in a connected world how do you even approach that? Our MP’s can’t force America to do stuff, nor can they force the EU, China, or Russia. So if we say that AI is to go under tight regulations in the UK, then the services will become shifted to other safe haven countries. Much like accessing adult online video without aged ID now is impossible in the UK right?