In the recent days I’ve been stumbling upon weird, new so-called “AI” Mathy-math-slop sites, like linuxv*x.com[1]. Some other was called something like “tutorialsipedia”, or whatever.
Have you noticed these? Is that some weird new Startup that wants to leverage CEO and “AI”? I’d use them, but my eyes glaze off the page. It’s like a drop on a Lotus leaf and I can’t really read that garbage. What’s up with those?
Don’t want to give them the traffic. ↩︎
I noticed this even before the sloppening I think it’s good old fashioned SEO
SEO-based business models used blogspam before. It’s the same SEO garbage that gets it into search results, but the content is now AI slop instead of contracted labour at pennies/word.
And search is garbage, now, because of enshittification; Google gets more money when you give up and couch the sponsored links, and re-query or load more pages of results to load more ads. So there’s no incentive for them to filter the spam.
Yeah, I think that’s a sad part of AI, is that even when you separate all the specific problems it has (energy use, CSAM, fake news) it also revivifies a bunch of old scams, SEO, phishing, etc
A super intelligent AI is also going to be better at scamming people than any human
The Sloppening. Hehehe.
The text is definetly slop, though.
It’s happening to all difficult problems. I’ve been searching for help with car wiring diagram or trouble codes and getting endless copies of slop scraped websites from DDG.
They often appear to be generated on the fly and rarely have any real information in them past the relevant search term. No real info. Super fucking frustrating.