Likely many other, I’ve been grossed out by some of the shit getting churned out with generative ai. But it’s also made me notice some of the existing things that give me the same feeling.

Poorly translated stuff, as often seen on cheap Chinese imports, has the same uncanny valley awkwardness. It sounds like English, but it isn’t what an actual human who spoke English would say. And if we want to talk about an algorithm that’s gone rogue and is destroying the world while trying to fulfill some arbitary metrics, there’s always late-stage capitalism…

Anyone else notice things like this?

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 天前

    Pretty much the entirety of advertising always has been, especially since the fall of the fairness doctrine. With the rare exception of ad agencies that are making artworks to try and win awards once in a while.

  • JoshsJunkDrawer@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 天前

    Every annual-ized video game. 2K, Fifa, Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed. Copy and paste, low effort trash that offers nothing new, different, or interesting. They’re designed to be as bland and disposible as possible, to keep you addicted for a year and selling you loot boxes and additions until the next edition comes out.

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 天前

    In art, this fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade

    It’s the only Wiki entry on an artist that I’ve seen with no examples of his work. The nearest is a photo of a photo of Kinkade with one of his paintings.

    I’m not being snobbish - it does give me the same vibe as AI generated images touted as art. Nostalgia, colour saturation, cliché, all dialled up to the max. The man died in 2012 but lives on as a brand.

    • Acamon@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      2 天前

      That’s a really good example, just a mix and regurgitate of older, better work trying to give consumers what they think they want.

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    3 天前

    Reaction videos - prime example of slop. WHO DAFUQ WATCHES THESE? Like, am I going crazy by not getting this? Why would I watch some person just sit there and react to shit, often exaggerating their reaction to get attention of a watcher, that brings literally 0 fucking worth to the original content?

    Prank videos - only are second to reaction videos. 99% of the time are either fake or they do some questionable stuff to expectorating bystanders.

    • MycelialMass@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 天前

      I dont mind them when the reactor is a specialist (like a physicist or chemist or something) who normally produce their own content reacting to a realted thing. Pure react channels are pretty trash tho

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      3 天前

      Reaction videos can be done right. There’s a vocal coach on Youtube who listens to and comments on the vocal techniques in use in famous songs, the most fun ones are the ones she’s never heard before. It’s also really easy to do this kind of content lazily, play someone else’s video and remember to say “oh shit” occasionally.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 天前

      There’s two kinds of reaction videos. The more common type a lot of streamers do is just garbage content stealing. The other is actually interesting or entertaining to watch.

      • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        What exactly is good about either of them.

        Say, a professional lawyer is making a reaction video to some other video depicting something that breaks the law and gives comments form law standpoint - that is fine. But might as well count as a commentary channel rather than a reaction channel. Also, these are fucking rare!

        And then we got trillions of channels that just watch movie/game trailers, funny tiktok/reddit/insta/9gag videos, or worse - movies and just occasionally react in an exaggerated tone to them or dont react at all - that is content cancer prime.

        • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 天前

          The vast majority of “reaction” videos or streams are garbage. That doesn’t mean the good ones are bad though.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    61·
    3 天前

    Anything found on aliexpress, temu or wish. Manufactured trash/industrial runoff that’s likely dangerous to breathe near.

    Television news. In fact, most of the shit on television these days.

    The idea cancer for toddlers section of youtube, which I think they have since cleaned up. The “finger family pregnant elsa kills hitler spiderman” era. Which was kind of fascinating to study, because no one was in charge. iPad children weren’t making decisions, they were just letting the colors and sounds happen, and actual people deciding to make the content, sometimes to the point of wearing costumes and shooting live video, were making what the algorithm deemed popular. At least one woman pulled a bright blue dress over a fake baby belly while her husband scribbled a toothbrush mustache on a Spiderman mask and didn’t think “What the hell are we even doing right now?”

  • zecg@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 天前

    Short form video comedy with cringy facial expressions synced to music is my most hated example

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    3 天前

    Art pieces that are made and sold as little more than money laundering schemes. Playing GTAO again and am kinda surprised out of all the money laundering operations you can run, a bogus art gallery isn’t one of them.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      4 天前

      Also why the hell is this a thing? Those ads are showing gameplay, it would be so much easier to make that game and then take a video of it for the advert than to just make an animation of it. So in my mind the game exists. Why is it just Mafia Wars reskinned every fucking time?

      • Iunnrais@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 天前

        Because “mafia wars” makes consistent money, and the games people actually might want to play don’t. Slapping a new coat of paint on the same mechanics over and over again means getting the money maker out there to more people, just gotta lure em in with the promise of a game they might actually want to play, then swap in the game they don’t and hope you snag em with the psychological tricks before they leave.

        It works just often enough to make it profitable and easy.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
    32·
    4 天前

    “Silverberg’s Law”

    Someone once asked science fiction writer Robert Silverberg why 90% of the SF stories they read were crap.

    Silverberg replied that 90% of everything is crap.

    • LeapSecond@lemmy.zip
      16·
      4 天前

      And that’s why older media is usually better. Only the good parts have survived and the 90% has been forgotten.

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
        10·
        4 天前

        The trouble is that a lot of the good stuff is forgotten as well.

        Here are some movies you’ve probably never heard of.

        “The Day of the Jackal” [original]

        “The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3” [original]

        “Silent Partner” Elliot Gould

        “The 3 Musketeers” Raquel Welch and Oliver Reed.

        “Little Big Man”

        I never hear them mentioned but people will rewatch a Hitchcock movie fifty times.

  • remon@ani.social
    371·
    4 天前

    • Super Hero movies

    • almost anything Disney produces these days.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    3 天前

    low effort, low quality, for making money because of it. Might not have either low effort or quality “tag” at times, but then its replaced by being harmful, which can be there with them too. So things like what fastfood companies squeeze out, tiktok content, illegal drugs, temu trash.

    So maybe also anything that actively exploits humans in some way for monetary gains (ai exploits and harms creators, fastfood and drugs exploit and harm body, tiktok trash exploits and harms mind, temu trash exploits western economy and harms environment).

    so in short, shit that would make world better place with its absence

  • emb@lemmy.world
    30·
    4 天前

    SEO slop is the first thing that comes to mind. It’s super-charged in ubiquity with AI now, but it’s been a thing about as long as search engines.

    Sometimes you land on a page and you can tell you’re only there because they loaded it with keywords, repeating the same phrases you searched for in every variation.

    • Acamon@lemmy.worldOP
      13·
      4 天前

      SEO is actually one of the things that started me thinking about this. Although those dumb overly long cooking blogs were (previously) written by humans, the incentives led to a style that was no longer genuine. Much worse were those shameless fake review sites that existed solely to promote some VPN or antivirus. Sure, a human might’ve put that together, but so many words with so little regard for meaning.

      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 天前

        I never understood why we tolerate the whole recipe site bullshit. It’s been a thing my entire life and it would take no effort to make a recipe site that just gives the recipe. You could when keep doing the 8000 word essays for the search engines and just hide it in the background or something.

        • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
          6·
          4 天前

          I believe the important part is to make people scroll, not just the number of words. For some unholy reason google considers that a better website.

          That’s also why some sites have a “go to recipe” button at the top now, which auto scrolls you to the recipe. They don’t care that you read the text, only that you scrolled a lot.

          • Acamon@lemmy.worldOP
            3·
            4 天前

            Oh man, that’s soothing. A recipe, for a meal, and it explains what I need to do, in the order I do it, and the pictures actually show the cooking. This is some next level stuff. I hope it catches on!