AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk
The Verge AI3d agoEthicsThe Verge found TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook accounts using AI-generated Black women and other marginalized personas to sell dropshipped products. The videos frame mass-produced goods as handmade small-business items and use tears, racial identity, and hardship narratives to drive engagement. Researchers describe the pattern as digital blackface and empathy bait, enabled by short-form platforms, weak labeling, and widely available generative AI ad workflows.
Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop★ 70
Ars Technica AI15d agoIncident隨著生成式 AI 的普及，許多人開始利用 AI 大量產出漏洞報告，導致企業的漏洞賞金計劃（Bug Bounty）正遭受無窮無盡的「AI 垃圾（AI slop）」轟炸。這些報告充斥著虛假資訊與幻覺，迫使安全團隊花費大量時間進行過濾，嚴重拖慢了真正關鍵漏洞的修復進度。
Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions★ 75
Ars Technica AI18d agoIncident知名學術預印本平台 arXiv 宣布新政策，針對提交 AI 生成之「垃圾內容（slop）」與「幻覺（hallucinations）」的作者實施嚴厲懲罰。根據 arXiv 社群媒體上板主的說明，違規者將被處以「禁投一年」的處罰。此舉旨在維護學術研究的真實性與品質，防堵日益氾濫的 AI 劣質學術寫作對科研生態造成的破壞。