[HN Gopher] AI hype is drowning in slopaganda
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       AI hype is drowning in slopaganda
        
       Author : Bluestein
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2025-04-17 19:18 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.ft.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ft.com)
        
       | cactacea wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/oPne9
        
       | camillomiller wrote:
       | The reckoning can't come soon enough.
        
       | jaredcwhite wrote:
       | The "Age of AI...Slop" is taking down the open web. I am counting
       | the days until these Big Tech companies fall and are held to
       | account for their digital crimes against humanity.
        
         | Bluestein wrote:
         | How? Genuinely curious how you mean.-
        
       | quantified wrote:
       | > When I asked his view on the AI newsletter economy, Ed Zitron
       | -- writer, PR man and scourge of slop -- was characteristically
       | excoriating. "It's content built for people who don't really read
       | or listen or know stuff . . . It's propaganda under a different
       | name," he said.
       | 
       | Sounds a lot like US political information too.
        
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