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Tech companies have intensified their drive toward turning our realities into synthetic post-truth simulacra where all is real and nothing is real, where ‘facts’ are merely conveyances of ad-coin, and reality itself is pasteurized into mush serving venture capitalist narratives.

Some may have noticed the preponderance of AI bot responses on Twitter and elsewhere, with the entire internet slowly becoming an industrial cesspool of misbegotten AI datamosh. Google search has become “unusable”—so say dozens if not hundreds of videos and articles highlighting how the search engine is now riddled with results preferential to Google’s paid spam—services, useless products, and other dross. Not to mention the results are riddled with AI slop, making it nearly impossible to fish out needed info from the sea of turds:




Many have taken to using a “before:2023” hack in search queries to bypass the slop singularity, or slopularity now befouling every search.

Adding ‘before:2023’ can enhance your Google web searches and get rid of AI-generated content ...

The Kissinger/Eric Schmidt book on AI basically states that the real promise of AI, from their perspective, is as a tool of perception manipulation - that eventually people will not be able to interpret or perceive reality without the help of an AI via cognitive diminishment and learned helplessness. For that to happen, online reality must become so insane that real people can no longer distinguish real from fake in the virtual realm so that they can then become dependent on certain algorithms to tell them what is "real". Please, please realize that we are in a war against the elites over human perception and that social media is a major battleground in that war. Hold onto your critical thinking and skepticism and never surrender it. ...

And in line with Meta’s “generated users”, companies are now farming us to create AI surrogates, even without our consent:

Instagram is testing advertising with YOUR FACE - users are complaining that targeted advertising with their appearance has started appearing in the feed.

The creepiness comes if you've used Meta AI to edit your selfies. ...

Ukrainian YouTuber discovers dozens of clones of her promoting Chinese and Russian propaganda Each clone has a different backstory and pretends to be a real person "She has my voice, my face, and speaks fluent Mandarin."