Fake News and Disinformation on the Web Isn't Always LLM Slop; Some Fake News and Disinformation is About Slop
A great new example, from 17 hours ago:
Business Insider's new article ("6 companies that have signaled they are replacing human employees with AI") by Ana Altchek and Kelsey Vlamis merely helps perpetuate a widespread corporate lie, wherein they misuse a buzzword (or catchphrase that's a deliberate misnomer) to disguise or distract from business failure.
To be clear, MIT has also joined this latest propaganda campaign (we saw several headlines stating something like "12% of jobs" can be eliminated by slop; it's painted as some kind of serious research, not just marketing nonsense).
Also to be clear, IBM does not have layoffs because it replaces people with "AI". IBM has layoffs because IBM is a crappy company with crappy products and services. As recently as yesterday we saw people who claim to specialise in "AI" losing their jobs at IBM.
If anything, all this nonsense from MIT - and even corporate media such as Business Insider (which already got caught publishing LLM slop as 'articles'; Business Insider didn't deny this, but it responded to the concerns) - shows us that there are lies everywhere on the Web. Not all those lies are made by LLM slop. So be sceptical and suitably critical.
A lot of the media gets paid by the slop industry to perpetuate false narratives. There may also be fraudulent accounting (money going in loops to fake 'demand' [1, 2]). █