Man laments having lost his mother to AI slop: ‘I am not joking when I say she is the spitting image of Bilbo Baggins when Gandalf tries to take the ring from him’

The surge in AI slop series must be comparable to when TV first began appearing in every householdPeople in the fifties went from coming home to dinner with their entire family to dining together in front of a TV screen. It must've been very scary; people must've thought TV was mind-numbing, and that it had everybody hypnotized. And it did; housewives had it on all day, and entire living rooms got refurnished to fit large TVs.Suddenly, it became normal for us, and TVs became part of any family's day-to-day life. Nobody moralized about its consumption anymore, except for some relative restrictions for children.I think the same is happening with AI-made content. It's created to be extremely addictive, and almost no humans are involved in the process- only highly specific data all of us gave to the machine to learn what we like and what we would spend more time watching.Retired or bored people are the best targets for this content. Most AI slop content manipulates your emotions just like soap operas did before, but in a more curated, perverse way.Its short-form content makes it even harder to stop; you just lie there and scroll to the next video, saying it will be the last. Frankly, …

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