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by lizknope 57 days ago
Yeah, I waste more time now because of AI generated slop.

I see a headline on reddit and click on the article. I spend 3 minutes reading it and the article says nothing new and doesn't even have a point.

Then I go to the comments and see people arguing about it but also people calling it AI generated slop.

Then I click on the account that posted the article and their account history is spamming the same article to 10 different subreddits and I subscribe to about 5 of them so I have to see the same dumb post 5 times. Then I realize the account is just an AI bot spamming AI generated articles to generate upvotes or display ads to generate money.

It's all so annoying and a waste of electricity, bandwidth, and my time.

There are also subreddits mainly for photos like nostalgia places where bots just repost popular posts from a year ago or 6 months ago but now they repost stuff from 3 days ago. It's completely out of control and AI has made it this easier to do.

So now I am spending less time on these sites which is maybe a good thing so I can thank AI for making using the Internet so annoying that I stop and find something else to do.

It's basically Dead Internet Theory becoming reality.