I don't know but when I saw the words "Oliver" and "SLOP"...I thought this was a harsh criticism of Jamie Oliver's AI-assisted slop recipe that turned out to be appallingly disgusting.
ChatGPT TLDR: John Oliver (Last Week Tonight, June 2025) explores the rise of “AI slop” — cheap, AI‑generated content flooding the internet — and highlights its hidden dangers: 1. What is “AI Slop”? Low‑quality images, fake news articles, deceptive videos and ads churned out by AI at mass scale. Often lacks accuracy or substance — but quantity and virality create the illusion of truth. 2. Why is it dangerous? Erosion of trust: Even harmless AI slop dilutes public confidence in info sources. Political/prejudice risk: Sloppy or biased AI outputs can weaponize misinformation. Cultural decay: Constant flood of shallow content can numb public attention spans. 3. The “Cat Dad” Story A human-interest anecdote about a man whose simple cat photos went viral and were remixed into increasingly absurd AI memes. Illustrates how AI slop can hijack real content, twist personhood, and churn income/attention back into the AI echo chamber. 4. What does Oliver suggest? AI watermarking requirements — so users can identify AI‑generated content. Platform accountability — social media giants should track and label AI output. Public literacy — we must learn to critically evaluate what we see, regardless of how polished it appears. In essence: the quality of content isn’t the primary issue — it’s the overwhelming volume. AI slop poses serious threats to truth, individuality, and public discourse. Let me know if you’d like a deeper dive into any point or want resources about spotting AI-generated stuff online!
Boomers are so ripe for scams it ridiculous. Just over and over and over again. My MIL needed to check something with a flight and googled United. Of course she googled United and called a scam number that was listed and they told her that her ticket still had to be verified and they needed a $400 deposit. Luckily she decided to ask my wife about it first. By the way, my wife booked her ticket so a call to her in the first place would have been easier. They don’t do anything the easy way.
It's not just old folks. It's dumb folks. Basically, everyone, and it's only going to get worse. We will soon live in a world where you should believe absolutely nothing you see/hear/read online, and that is going to be a very scary place. Our only hope is that we use the same computing technology that brought us endless fabrications to generate some type of fault tolerant verification/authenticity process.
teenage-20's brains have been rotted I can't imagine growing up with the internet and smartphones as a constant in my life Big Wheel and Atari was serious technology back then.
There’s a reason why incels are a real thing. On-demand pocket p*rn. You would never leave your room.
Being able to put any p*rn instantly into your hand all over the world is one reason. The other reason is economic disaffection. If I took out a 6 figure loan to go to college, graduated, ended up underpaid/underemployed, I'd probably turn into an incel, too.
Hmm…ok. I can see it for some people. Being broke and not getting laid were major motivators for me as a youf. Actually, getting laid and having the resources to do what I want to do are still motivators. But you can’t be hungry if you’re full.
Hopelessness is a real thing. If you're running as hard as you can and going backwards, eventually you just give up.
No idea what it is now, but in '93/4 a semester at UT was 5K...or that might have been the whole year, can't remember. Rice was double+ that. Stanford was way too much more...my dream school.
Yeah, I get it. For some people. My stepdad had the hardcore stuff in a big paper city garbage bag in their closet. Or there was always that spot in the woods where the good mags were stashed. We used to go on bike rides to see if we could find them tossed on the side of the road. It was surprisingly fruitful. One time my friend’s parents went out of town and he found the key to his dad’s filing cabinet where he kept the good video tapes. We watched that **** all weekend until one tape was gay p*rn which was weird, but in retrospect it might have been his mom’s, because I always suspected she was a freak.
