In 1957 science fiction writer named Theodore Sturgeon famously stated: “90% of everything is cr*p”. This statement became known as “Sturgeon’s Law” and remains applicable to majority of human endeavours. Futurists had hopes that computers might change it for the better (notably, Stanisław Lem disagreed). With headlines like those below, I’m afraid that Lem was right to be sceptical, and the number needs to be raised significantly:

“Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI” The Register, 10 Dec 2024 https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/ai_slop_bug_reports/

“A new analysis estimates that over half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated” Wired, 26 November 2024 https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-ai-generated-influencers/

“Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop. Fake music targets real artists.” The Verge, 16 November 2024 https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24294995/spotify-ai-fake-albums-scam-distributors-metadata

Meanwhile, Facebook’s recommendation algorithm seems to be actively boosting AI spam, and Mark Zuckerberg joyfully announced in the recent earnings call: “We’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way. And I think that that’s going to be just very exciting”. https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2024/q3/META-Q3-2024-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf?ref=404media.co

Exciting, sure. For click farms harvesting advertisers’ money with fake engagement. And for Facebook pocketing substantial part of it.

The rest of us can stuff ourselves. With AI slop, of course 😜

Disclaimer: This post has been written solely by Human Intelligence. Originally posted on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomaszwaraksa_open-source-projects-drown-in-bad-bug-reports-activity-7272182359272177664-fjg8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop. LinkedIn suggestions to rewrite it with AI were ignored. All errors in spelling and grammar were left intentionally.