Turns out AI generated slop can have real world impact. On...
Bilawal Sidhu@bilawalsidhu
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Feb 17, 2025
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Turns out AI generated slop can have real world impact. On Halloween, crowds gathered in Dublin for a parade that didn’t even exist.
Police released a statement confirming no parade was scheduled, urging people to “disperse safely.”
The source? A three month old SEO agency halfway around the world used AI to spin up articles for this fake event and managed to get it ranked on Google’s first page.
Nobody bothered to double check sources because “the size of the crowds caused a brief disruption to the Luas tram network, with parts of the Red and Green line services down for about half an hour.”
In other words, AI generated slop can disrupt reality.
Police released a statement confirming no parade was scheduled, urging people to “disperse safely.”
The source? A three month old SEO agency halfway around the world used AI to spin up articles for this fake event and managed to get it ranked on Google’s first page.
Nobody bothered to double check sources because “the size of the crowds caused a brief disruption to the Luas tram network, with parts of the Red and Green line services down for about half an hour.”
In other words, AI generated slop can disrupt reality.
