If youve spent any time on Facebook recently youve seen the river ofAI slop.
Theres the homeless vet with the badly worded sign, cops carrying massive bibles, andof courseShrimp Jesus.
Why is Facebook full of this stuff?
Shrimp Jesus, in all his AI-generated glory.© Image via Facebook
Because theres money in it, of course.
It exists to automate the creation and distribution of AI-generated images on Facebook.
They post dozens of images every day, sometimes every hour, and make a living from the engagement.
The goal is to get up as many posts in a day across as many accounts as possible.
Some posts will only generate a few cents while others may pull in hundreds of dollars.
The more posts, the greater the returns.
The goal is to use automation to post as much as possible, sometimes hundreds of times a day.
Using instructions and tools he bought online, 404 Medias Jason Koebler set up his own AI slop shop.
Heres how it works:
First, a spammer makes a free Vercel account.
Then, they generate a preview for their ad.
FewFeed has recently created a feature that allows you to directly create these fake photo album-bang out images.
Profiting from AI slop is a technical process and Metas content moderation teams cant keep up with the flood.
Worse, they may not want to stop all grist-mill.
The more people sharing posts and engaging with them, the better off Meta is.
The slop makes everyone money.
According to the people making the slop, the money is life-changing.
Buried in the middle of the 404 Media story is a telling exchange.
In one podcast, a spammer showed off his earnings tab.
On the list was a picture of a train made of leaves.
The spammer had earned $431 from the images engagement.
People dont even make this much money in a month, the interview said.
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