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pretty convincing argument to be made that big G invented human web slop AND AI slop, full slop

Well I wouldn't say "invented", but I'd agree with "incentivized at scale until it became a cancer on the web"

The weird thing is that YouTube seems to have incentivized a lot of good content. Sure there is "scalable slop" like Mr. Beast, but there is also good content on YouTube (Fall of Civilizations podcast, etc.).

Somehow on the web I am not seeing a lot of good content incentivized by ads. I see a lot of WikiHow-type stuff.

It seems like writing moved to Substack and so forth.

That YouTube got great content, is that it has a quasi monopoly on video streaming.

Also the reason the noise ratio is high with junk, and now shorts.

Yep. They are the Slopfather, basically.

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