AI Generated Slop
Here are examples of AI generated or automated slop in media I consume.
The Blurry House
Local media pennlive.com takes a feed from Real Estate Newswire that tracks lists of houses for sale, matches them up with a Google Street View and some averages and computation of the local market and creates an “article” about them. At the same time, Google Maps allows owners to blur out their homes for privacy reasons, which results in fun combinations like this 10 most expensive homes sold in York, Oct. 7-13 article:
If this were a real journalist or editor-influenced process, a photographer or stringer1 might have been sent out to photograph the front of this property, but since this is neither, the blur is considered an acceptable accompanying photograph to the “content” provided in this article.