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highplainsdem

(63,830 posts)
1. I hate the AI slop video flooding the internet. It should never have been allowed. But the AI companies and
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 09:04 PM
16 hrs ago

tech platforms make money off it. Just as Amazon makes money off AI slop books on Kindle.

And that's all they care about. And all the ethics-free AI users creating the slop care about. They don't care that generative AI is based on theft, with AI trained on stolen intellectual property. They don't care that the AI slop they upload is full of misinformation and advice that might be very harmful.

highplainsdem

(63,830 posts)
2. Rick keeps changing his video title. The first was something like "AI is killing the interner...and nobody cares."
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 09:27 PM
16 hrs ago

Then it was "The great AI scam" or wording close to that.

And now "The Internet Is Dead…And Nobody Cares."

I think he keeps changing it because no words can really express just how horrifying this is.

I knew it was going to get bad, and I've been posting warnings about genAI harms for years. But it's caused more harm faster than I would have believed possible, a few years ago.

highplainsdem

(63,830 posts)
4. Here's the Rhett Shull video Rick was talking about:
Fri Jul 3, 2026, 12:03 AM
13 hrs ago



And btw, although a lot of the comments on Rhett's video a couple of days ago said that AI channel was being reported to YouTube, it's still there.
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