People Are Using Zuckerberg's AI to Post Videos of Senior Citizens Falling to Their Death

"The mass adoption of generative AI has given rise to some bizarre waves of incomprehensible slop. There was the " good ending," a glut of AI generated images depicting Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg as starcrossed lovers, which surfaced as their public feud threatened to turn violent. Then of course there was " Shrimp Jesus," followed closely by the " baby monk," a disturbing series featuring babies clad in robes being eaten alive by fire ants."

"There are dozens of variations on this theme, usually showing an elderly white woman or a character with a heavily stereotyped racial identity smashing the bridge with a large rock. Each follows the same tried-and-true formula to churn out viral slop: a shocking action incits a panic, which ends only seconds later, either in horrible tragedy or in sentimental euphoria."

"One mockingly uploaded to X-formerly-Twitter went viral, nabbing over 32 million views. It shows an older, heavy-set woman with a smile plastered on her face jumping backward and crashing through the glass floor, with an extended outro involvinga golden retriever saving a drowning baby from the river below. "Opened Facebook and Reels autoplayed. First reel had 57k likes and 12,000 comments," the poster said. "Comments were overwhelmingly impressed old people praising a dog... the AI slop has escaped containment.""

Generative AI has produced a succession of bizarre, viral fads that produce implausible or grotesque imagery and fabricated videos. Examples include romanticized images of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, surreal religious mashups like 'Shrimp Jesus,' and disturbing baby imagery such as the 'baby monk' series. A prominent trend recreates glass-bottom-bridge sabotage, showing individuals smashing panels and crowds falling, often featuring stereotyped perpetrators and improbable rescues. These clips routinely follow a shock-to-euphoria or shock-to-tragedy arc designed to maximize engagement. Platforms' autoplay and algorithmic amplification spread such content rapidly, generating millions of views and normalizing deceptive, sensationalist media.

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