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After a visit to Youtube to check out news on the Israel / Hezbollah conflict, I noticed the comment section is, at the time of this post, 50% malfunctioning LLMs spewing short messages containing random names, mainly English ones.
Presumably the actor's LLM is swapping its fake account names with its message bodies. Does make you wonder how widespread this is; if it's political, the comments are probably confined to middle-eastern conflict videos.
Vaguely interesting. To read them all does make a person entertain the Dead Internet theory.
Examples...
@SubornaKhatun-b5k
Brown George Young Jose Wilson Edward
@BillyDoris-q8k
Thompson Matthew Hall Angela Young Edward
@SubornaKhatun-b5k
Lewis William Gonzalez Kenneth Wilson Jennifer
@LyttonAtwood-w1y
Martinez Linda Smith Elizabeth Gonzalez Betty
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lEW7VnHJXd0
So, soon it'll be bots arguing with bots about bot-written, bot-edited, and bot-narrated content.
Yay, slop all the way down!
Others will use AI in positive and creative ways. I think AI-assisted comments can be positive and helpful under correct human oversight, but they are useless if they are surrounded by AI junk.
The AI slop effect is undoubtedly changing the media landscape. And then there will be the adverse AI-related effects that we haven't even got a name for yet, e.g. AI-powered psychological manipulations that subtly influence people, sometimes in personalized individual ways.
Human society will adapt. Perhaps there will be an increased value placed on genuine communications and analog content for example ...