Recently my parents showed me some stuff they saw on Facebook. It was all just AI slop, rage bait, advertisements. Seriously, there was barely anything useful on it. They were very avoidant of acknowledging it tho. "But there's also fun stuff on it". They were constantly wondering whether what they were reading was real, yet it did plant seeds in their brains. It's even influencing their politics, I had to have a whole discussion with them (traditionally centre left voters) about how our left wing parties didn't want to let an unstoppable horde of immigrants into our country. And why voting for a centre right guy because "he looks pretty competent" will also fuck with poor people and important topics like abortion.

AI slop often slips into your recommendations without you even knowing it until you watch the video and be aware of the tells to know the difference. I've had to scrutinize so many channels and remind the algorithm to not recommend said channel to sway it in the right direction. It's been so demanding sometimes but now I'm getting smaller niche channels that actually have a sole.

All YouTube is nowadays is pretty much slop. AI voiceovers and horrible videos of “people” pretending to be normal and real.