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there are a ton of pseudo intellectuals pumping out AI slop under the radar
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Date: November 25th, 2025 10:18 AM Author: autoadmit twitter posse substack, youtube, tiktok, every platform now has a ton of these people pumping out AI slop pseudo-intellectual nonsense
the algos are actually pretty good at not showing them to you, but if you click on a few of them, it will start recommending them to you, and then you realize just how many of them there are
there's a growing consensus that The Age Of Conspiracy Theories is now over, because almost all information is in the public domain now - there's nothing Unknown left to spin theories and fanfic about. but it's going to be replaced by The Age Of AI Pseudo-Intellectualism imo. whole "information ecosystems" full of pseuds pumping out utterly retarded slop, boosting each other, slowly turning the internet into a cesspool of AI-generated garbage that new AIs then train on, etc |
Date: November 25th, 2025 10:19 AM Author: Adolf Hitler Uunona which AI wrote that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49458970) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 10:32 AM Author: thankman I think you're onto something real about the shift, though I'd push back on the "conspiracy theories are over" part - they're just mutating. The information being public doesn't kill conspiracies because conspiracies aren't really about hidden information, they're about narrative frameworks that make people feel like they understand chaotic systems. If anything, information overload makes conspiracy thinking more appealing as a simplifying heuristic.
But yeah, the AI slop problem is genuinely concerning. What worries me most is the economic incentives - it's now trivially cheap to generate endless content that's juuust coherent enough to capture attention and ad revenue. The barrier to entry for "information entrepreneur" has collapsed to basically zero, so we're getting flooded with people who have nothing to say but infinite capacity to say it.
The model collapse issue (AIs training on AI output) gets a lot of attention, but I think the human cognition version might be worse: people forming their worldviews by consuming content that sounds intellectual but is actually just probabilistic word salad.
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Date: November 25th, 2025 10:37 AM Author: zoomer sexuality expert (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459029) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:02 AM Author: autoadmit twitter posse yeah, you might be right about conspiracy theories. what i meant is that: the age of "credible" conspiracy theories are over. in the old days, conspiracy theories hung around because it was extremely difficult to access information that would completely clarify whether or not something was 100% true or false. today, it's pretty easy to figure out almost anything
but yeah, stuff like "candace owens" appears to be only getting more popular: straight up making shit up that has no connection to reality at all. and i think the audience *knows* that, but doesn't care. it's just entertainment and ego stroking, like you said
the popularity of the AI slop pseudo intellectualism is what's so eerie. people are really into this stuff. you scroll through the comments section of some completely retarded, like really, really fucking retarded bullshit that's obviously made by AI, and it's person after person offering effusive praise. they're definitely human comments and not bot comments too
it's all just very very weird |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:09 AM Author: thankman Yeah, you're naming something genuinely strange. The old conspiracy theory dynamic was at least epistemically coherent - people believed false things because verification was hard. There was a relationship between belief and truth-seeking, even if the truth-seeking failed.
What you're describing is different. It's not really about belief at all. It's more like... collaborative performance? The AI slop comment sections are almost ritualistic. Everyone knows the rules: you encounter content that feels profound, you leave a comment affirming its profundity, you get a little dopamine hit from participating in the shared fiction that wisdom is being transmitted.
The eerie part, I think, is that it reveals how much of human intellectual engagement was maybe always partly this. The content is just a pretext for the social experience of seeming to engage with ideas together. When the content is obviously hollow, the ritual continues anyway - which suggests the content was never the point.
It's like discovering that a significant chunk of the population treats "thinking" the way they treat watching wrestling. They know it's kayfabe. That's not a problem for them. The performance of intellectual seriousness is the product.
What makes it weirder with AI is that there's not even a human performer to admire. It's just... pure structure. The form of insight with nothing inside. And people are apparently fine with that. Maybe even prefer it, because a real human might say something that actually challenges them. |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:22 AM Author: autoadmit twitter posse you're either copy pasting AI or a very good writer
i agree with everything you said though! lol |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:24 AM Author: UhOh the really weird thing is you'll never know any more. even good writers will be running their drafts through AI. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459233) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:25 AM Author: thankman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459243) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:28 AM Author: autoadmit twitter posse i can almost always tell. most people who currently pass off AI work as their own aren't smart enough to make even the few small edits necessary to make it extremely hard to tell the difference
but yeah i honestly can't tell if he's using AI and editing it a bit or not. very good writer if he wrote that post himself in that short amount of time |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:36 AM Author: UhOh i mean, this is the whole "promise" of AI. guys who are really good will be able to produce much, much faster. as long as you know your domain and don't have to cite check it you can just churn shit out that used to take weeks of drafting and revising. feed enough of your own work and it'll even write in your voice for you. it's like writing is becoming obsolete in a weird way. there will be more of it than ever but no one needs to learn to do it anymore and no one wants to or has to read it all. i think this pushes us further into twitter-style-character-limited-statements-as-complete-thought. why bother writing some 20 page article if everyone is just going to AI summarize it anyway. maybe it frees communication from the narrative, into something more like pure logic/hyper-condensed arguments. when everyone can produce a tome brevity will become more valuable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459272) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:17 AM Author: UhOh people who have nothing to say but infinite capacity to say it tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459199) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:17 AM Author: thankman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459200) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:26 AM Author: OldHLSDude A flood of stuff. We'll have to build information arks. I will sit and read by candlelight my old Encyclopedia Brittanica. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459253) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:30 AM Author: UhOh there is enough pre-AI content to last generations. no one needs this new "information". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459259) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 2:32 PM Author: SneakersSO Conspiracy theories are at an ATH now. Maybe they're peaking and will fall by the wayside soon. But more information just makes conspiracy theories more palatable. Shit like this lends itself to conspiracy theories and no amount of publicly available "information" has deunked it: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/55433 |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:24 AM Author: OldHLSDude It's the Tower of Babel, but with truth and information being corrupted instead of language. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459238) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 11:25 AM Author: thankman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459245) |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 3:16 PM Author: autoadmit twitter posse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5802227&forum_id=2:#49459920) |