Parmy Olson: Meta’s Zuckerberg wants to flood your feed with more AI slop

As Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is accelerating a surge of AI-generated content on social media, making his Llama 3.2 model open-source to flood feeds with machine-made posts. This shift is reshaping Facebook and Instagram, moving from friends' updates to AI-crafted images, text, and videos. While Zuckerberg frames this as democratizing AI, critics argue it risks swamping authentic content with "AI slop," blurring the line between genuine and artificial online experiences.

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By Parmy Olson

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