The Internet Is Fighting Back Against AI Slop, and Winning
Turns out nobody actually wanted their feed drowning in fake AI garbage. LinkedIn quietly added a 'seems like AI slop' report button, Snapchat booted fully AI-generated videos from its discovery feed, and Substack rolled out an AI detector for writers. Meta killed its Instagram deepfake tool after three days of viral backlash, and Google pulled AI photo editing from Earth almost as fast as it launched. Gallup finds nearly half of young Americans now think AI does more harm than good, proof the backlash isn't just vibes, it's actually changing product roadmaps.
Companies spent billions shoving AI into everything nobody asked for, now they're spending more to quietly take it back out.