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AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough.

New York Times — Tech · · International · AI Governance

Spotify, LinkedIn, and other major platforms are taking steps to address a growing flood of low-quality, AI-generated content that has accumulated across their services. The companies are working to identify and reduce this material, which has become a widespread problem on digital platforms.

Why this matters: When platforms fill up with AI-generated junk, real people get buried. Your search results get worse. Recommendations stop working. Fake podcasts, fake profiles, and fake posts crowd out actual human work. These platforms built systems that rewarded volume, and AI made volume essentially free. Now they are dealing with the consequences. The question is whether their fixes target the slop or end up catching legitimate creators in the same net.

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