AI Slop
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YouTube’s AI Slop Problem Nobody Wants to Admit
YouTube allows anonymous channels to build AI-generated political content around the names and faces of real public figures, with no clear label telling viewers what they’re watching. Google talks about fighting AI slop in search while YouTube rewards the same thing with reach and subscribers. A visible on-screen disclosure, stating when a video uses AI-written…
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The AI Industry Has a Problem, and It’s Getting Worse
Years of job-loss warnings, billion-dollar announcements, and god-like claims about technology that often can’t reliably count to ten have quietly built up a head of public resentment. Tech critic Ed Zitron has been making this case for a while. In a recent episode of The Tech Report, he laid out exactly why the industry’s habit…
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That Facebook Post Doing the Rounds. It’s Still Bollocks!
Every few months, your feed fills up with it again. Some variation of “big day tomorrow” or “just in case you missed it on TV” – followed by a wall of semi-legal gibberish, a declaration that Facebook / Meta no longer has permission to use your photos, a bit about AI, and a helpful instruction…
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The Web Is Turning Into One Big Toll Booth
I’ve noticed something lately. Not gradually either. It feels like it’s happened in the space of a year or two. The internet has started putting up gates. You click a link, you want to read something, and you’re met with a banner. Not the old irritating cookie notice – those were bad enough. This one’s…
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Why I Refuse to Automate My Content Workflow
There’s something about full automation that makes my skin crawl. Not all automation. I’m not a dinosaur. I automate plenty of things. Backups. Updates. Repetitive admin. Boring, mechanical stuff that a computer can do more reliably than I can without getting distracted by a biscuit or a thought that wanders off mid-sentence. That’s sensible. What…
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Medium’s Algorithm Turned Your Feed Into an Echo Chamber
Medium used to be brilliant – a proper treasure trove of diverse content on every subject you could imagine. Now? The algorithm’s turned it into a one-note echo chamber where a single click defines your entire identity. While the platform’s trying to fix the spam problem, they’re mostly making it worse for everyone. Here’s what’s…
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The Internet Is Getting Bigger… and Somehow Worse
Today I tried to solve a tiny, a rather technical and boring problem: a cryptic Facebook “About this content” panel nagging that it “could not find a Facebook Page” for my own domain. It was bollocks really because the domain has existed for more than a decade (almost 16 years in fact) and is 100%…