Likely many other, I’ve been grossed out by some of the shit getting churned out with generative ai. But it’s also made me notice some of the existing things that give me the same feeling.

Poorly translated stuff, as often seen on cheap Chinese imports, has the same uncanny valley awkwardness. It sounds like English, but it isn’t what an actual human who spoke English would say. And if we want to talk about an algorithm that’s gone rogue and is destroying the world while trying to fulfill some arbitary metrics, there’s always late-stage capitalism…

Anyone else notice things like this?

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 hour ago

    low effort, low quality, for making money because of it. Might not have either low effort or quality “tag” at times, but then its replaced by being harmful, which can be there with them too. So things like what fastfood companies squeeze out, tiktok content, illegal drugs, temu trash.

    So maybe also anything that actively exploits humans in some way for monetary gains (ai exploits and harms creators, fastfood and drugs exploit and harm body, tiktok trash exploits and harms mind, temu trash exploits western economy and harms environment).

    so in short, shit that would make world better place with its absence

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    Reaction videos - prime example of slop. WHO DAFUQ WATCHES THESE? Like, am I going crazy by not getting this? Why would I watch some person just sit there and react to shit, often exaggerating their reaction to get attention of a watcher, that brings literally 0 fucking worth to the original content?

    Prank videos - only are second to reaction videos. 99% of the time are either fake or they do some questionable stuff to expectorating bystanders.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 hour ago

      There’s two kinds of reaction videos. The more common type a lot of streamers do is just garbage content stealing. The other is actually interesting or entertaining to watch.

    • MycelialMass@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I dont mind them when the reactor is a specialist (like a physicist or chemist or something) who normally produce their own content reacting to a realted thing. Pure react channels are pretty trash tho

  • zecg@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 hours ago

    Short form video comedy with cringy facial expressions synced to music is my most hated example

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Just about any short form video site.

    Most paperback novels sold in grocery stores

    90% of the Steam library

    Fast fashion

    Kitchen appliances with superfluous electronics

    Battery powered scooters that can’t handle a mild incline

    etc etc

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 hours ago

      For recipe sites use the Broccoli app. Scrapes off the SEO gunk and saves the recipe locally.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      7 hours ago

      *Most recipe sites.
      JustOneCookbook is very brief on backstory. Anything mentioned is usually related in context to the dish like culture things or substitutions.

      But besides that page? Very unusual to have minimal background info strictly related to the recipe.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      21 hours ago

      I grew up poor where you don’t throw away food.

      But yeah I’m not eating at Carl’s Jr. That shit is nasty.

  • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    1 day ago

    The “cooking blog” style where a simple answer to a simple question has to be padded with eight paragraphs of garbage. Like, I just want to know how to put a comment in a YAML file. I don’t need a table of contents for this, I don’t need to hear a brief history of how the comment was invented, just tell me the character to type.

      • Bongles@lemmy.zip
        4·
        22 hours ago

        When it was recipes they claimed it was copyright related. If another site stole your whole recipe plus the story you know it’s stolen. Just saying to hard boil eggs, split em, add mayo and mustard… well that’s just any deviled eggs.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Side qustion:
      AliExpress doesnt pretend to be the “THIS ARTICLE HAS A 99% DISCOUNT!!! Buy now!!!” (and I choose to ingore the discount codes which apply at >200€ cart value).

      Would you consider their stuff slop?
      Trashy sure but some of the stuff is actually better than getting the same on Amazon.

      • FridaySteve@lemmy.world
        1·
        12 minutes ago

        I’ve been buying from alibaba and aliexpress for years and I’ve never had anything INAD or otherwise temu style shitty come from there. It’s literally Amazon without the middleman.

  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    181·
    2 hours ago

    The absolute epitome of non-AI slop has got to be these creepy videos that were on YouTube back in ~2017:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

    Its exactly the kind of thing you’d expect would be the product of AI, but it actually came before AI. I think a lot of it was procedurally generated though, using scripts to control 3D software and editing software, so different character models could be used in the same scenes and different scenes could be strung together to make each video.

    I think a similar thing happens with those shovelware Android games. There’s so many that are just the same game with (incredibly poorly done) asset swaps that I think they must just make a game once and then automatically generate a thousand+ variations on it.