• Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    People still don’t realize how much if internet is just hustling. If something pays they will spam the shit out of it to get paid. That’s even true before llms.

  • ThotDragon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7 hours

    Isn’t the simplest explanation that scammers/spammers have discovered that anti AI memes perform well and they are spamming them to build page reputation?

    • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
      40 minutes

      Yeah, gotta fuel the rage machine. That’s how you shake money out of the algorithms.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6 hours

      social media creates a highly-competitive media environment

      we learn that what comes out on top in a competitive environment is ragebait, and social media sees increasing amounts of it

      It’d be nice if humanity were less attracted to outrage-inducing content and more to, say, catgirls or something.

      • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3 hours

        You can blame American puritism for that.

        No sexual content on these websites, instead we’re going to stir up rage and sell everyone an AR-14.

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6 hours

        the fediverse in a nutshell (unmonetized environment that doesn’t reward ragebait blatantly)

        • thisbenzingring@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4 hours

          we definitely need more catgirls, i don’t know what that is but it sounds good. Even if my first inclination is that the majority will be femboys. Those guys work hard so I’m willing to give them their due support

        • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
          2 hours

          Even fedi still has a ragebait slop problem. Look at the abysmal quality of articles that gets posted here and look at the responses.

    • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      It’s almost so obvious that it probably gets mentioned in the linked article…

      Spoiler:

      !it does!<

    • mynameisbob@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2 hours

      The internet is not dead but the brains of the yankkkee dumb dumb be dead… Thank gaed for the gippity… gippity gonna save us all 🤤

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
    6 hours

    It’s a good thing my ideology isn’t centered around opposition to propaganda people churn out. Russian bots promoted Black Lives Matter. One guy used AI to create anti-Muslim hate rhetoric alongside inspirational Qur’an quotes.

    Social media badly needs engagement to survive, and that’s what these posts are for.