Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.
This morning, I checked out Pinterest for the first time in forever and saw an image purporting to be a LEGO set that was obviously AI generated - yuck!
Then on Reddit's popular page there was a video compilation of people saving children from terrible falls = AI slop.
YouTube's homepage: a short video showing a child and her dog covered in mud = AI slop.
What was I thinking? I should visit #Lemmy and #PeerTube instead...
My next level for self-hosting is getting https://anubis.techaro.lol working #AI #Firewall #web #NoAI
@_elena fedi also has a lot of AI slop... It's sad to see them when mainstream accounts post it and see it on trending page
@_elena there's plenty of AI in lemmy if you are too lazy to block all of them by hand.
@_elena is Lemmy and peertube good? I was told that peertube is not a good replacement for YouTube. For example, I like to watch channels like EWU and investigation videos and those are not available in peertube. Is the content very low on it?
Follow-up to this morning's post about #AIslop.
@bookstardust @lefteristrip23 suggested I could turn off AI-gen image recommendations on #Pinterest. I did - thank you!
No more LEGO AI slop... but now my feed is 100% illustrations with the same style... and I don't know what to trust anymore.
I found an illustration of NYC really odd (Statue of Liberty in the middle of the city?!?), zoomed in and boom: complete gibberish on a store sign (aka surest sign of AI slop).
No more Pinterest for me 😭
#AIslop part 3: follow the money
Last night I did a reverse image search for that awful AI-generated illustration of NYC that I had seen on Pinterest... I couldn't find it anymore in my feed and I was curious to see where it was leading... what was the whole point behind it.
Well it lead to... a popular Etsy shop! Someone is creating city illustrations with generative AI and selling digital downloads of them. At 5 dollars a pop.
One of the reviewers wrote: "exactly what I was looking for!" 💀
@_elena people buys trash. Even in bad economy times
@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 what’s even the point of posting this kind of no-sense
@_elena @bookstardust yeah, tbh I wouldn't mind a fediverse Pinterest
@_elena fyi, you can disable ai on Pinterest
you’re preaching to the pickle choir! AI-generated nonsense is like a soggy cucumber – just sad. give me the real stuff or let me rot in peace, fr!
@_elena https://www.minds.com/Talon123/ try minds.. it is a bit more weird than here. it also has more memes, and convesation.
@_elena i didn't know peertube yet, thx for sharing
@_elena There are definitely accounts here that post #AISlop images. Many of the ones i see are using them along with the #infosec hashtag which i follow.
While it's certainly better than many other places, there are people who for some reason or another will post links to articles, blogs or whatever and instead of allowing the link preview to generate, will add some AI image.
Usually these are very small accounts here doing it, but i've muted a few large ones doing it as well.
@_elena it’s so frustrating having to be vigilant all the time to avoid ai stuff. 
@_elena @bookstardust LinkedIn absolutely. Unfortunately, this one REALLY, needs people to join
@_elena Yes, that definitely is a huge plus and reason why i've preferred the fediverse for a long time.
I've tried to use IG, i spent 2 years checking out Bluesky until a few months ago but i've used Mastodon and other ActivityPub projects for 8 years now and if this/these places didn't exist in this way, i'm honestly unsure if i'd bother at all with social media.
Mastodon's chronological feeds and lack of advertising make it a great place to be. :)
