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The Rise of Anti-AI AI Slop
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Americans are wary of AI in general, and they are especially suspicious of the AI data centers that are popping up across the country like enormous mushrooms.
Key facts
- A weirder, more disturbing type of AI-generated anti-AI content started proliferating on Facebook in March
- And in a picture of Texas residents coming together to protest a new data center on the Gulf Coast, one activist holds a sign that says, nonsensically, PRESERVE BEFORE CLOUDS
- Even the ironic fact of AI being used to rail against AI might be only another reason for sharing
- Whatever the source of anti-AI AI slop, thousands of people care enough about the issue it addresses to share and comment on the slopit
Summary
Defenders of the AI industry have claimed that the social-media conversation about the dangers of AI is inauthentic—that, in fact, it’s AI-generated—and to some extent, they’re right. Last week, the reporter perused dozens of local anti-data-center groups on Facebook, and in almost every one, the reporter found people sharing AI-generated materials. Even in these groups, users posted screenshots of AI-generated summaries as backup for their arguments. A weirder, more disturbing type of AI-generated anti-AI content started proliferating on Facebook in March. An accompanying caption will generally call out the unique qualities that make the state in question so worth fighting for: “quiet roads stretching beside cornfields and barns,” “Friday night football and county fairs,” “dark skies over peaceful countryside .” Which state is that?