The Slop Society
We recorded 4 claims from this post. 4 can’t be checked. 2 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (4)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“I believe, however, that Zuckerberg is attempting to move it further — to publicly say "we're going to fill your feeds with AI slop" and "we're firing 5% of our workers because they suck" and "we're going to have AI profiles instead of real people on the site you visit to see real people's stuff"”
Our reading: Zitron believes Zuckerberg is attempting to move the Overton window further by publicly signalling, in Zitron's paraphrase, that Meta will fill feeds with AI slop, is firing 5% of workers because they suck, and will have AI profiles instead of real people.
No horizon
Qualifier: I believe
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“Tech has already taken liberties with the digital experience and I believe the Slop Era will be one where experiences will begin to subtly and overtly rot, with companies proudly boasting that they're making "adjustments to user engagement that will provide better business-forward outcomes," which will be code for "make them worse so that we make more money."”
Our reading: In the coming 'Slop Era', tech companies will deliberately degrade user experiences to make more money.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“The Information's Jon Victor and Aaron Holmes add that it's yet to be seen what Microsoft does with the corporate customers using Microsoft's 365 productivity suite — adding Copilot costs $30-per-user-per-month — but my hypothesis is it will do exactly the same thing that Google did to its business customers.”
Our reading: Zitron hypothesizes that Microsoft will do exactly the same thing to its corporate Microsoft 365 customers that Google did to its business customers, namely raising prices along with adding AI features (Copilot) they don't want.
No horizon
Qualifier: my hypothesis
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Causal claim
“I should also be clear that the reason they're doing this is that they're desperate.”
Our reading: Google and Microsoft are forcing generative AI features and price increases on customers because they are desperate for growth.
No horizon
Held from this post (2)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Meta's AI bot profiles had existed in various forms for around a year but were so unpopular that nobody really noticed them until the Financial Times story, after which Meta deleted them, at least for now.