> There is no insight to be gleamed.

AI-generated articles are the intellectual equivalent of empty calories.

I have just spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure out why someone decided to buy imgui.org, name-squatting an actual project, just to put a slop website on it mildly referencing the original project. It's not even trying to scam you.

I keep wondering whether these people that keep polluting the internet with their insightless slop even possess self-awareness. What motivates them to expend money and effort to contribute nothing to the world? Are they another example of a philosophical zombie?

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goatherders an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The answer is in your question. "Empty calories" is a multi trillion dollar business in the food world. It will be the same in the digital world.

	▲	sph 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		McDonalds serves a need: human tend to get hungry. What need does filling the Internet with AI-generated slop serve? No one is ever going to read those. As I've shown, sometimes they're not even selling anything. The multi-trillion dollar business is for hyperscalers, but I don't get what slop creators get out of this. What are they spending money for?

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soco 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I cannot tell what about domain squatting, but I've seen a "why" in seemingly innocuous Facebook groups about baking or such, which at the right time slowly transitioned to fake AI pictures and stories, and then to straight-out political propaganda. I'm talking Eastern Europe and russian "special operation" support propaganda. But a slop website won't have enough traffic to be worth such an action, so no idea.