“This is what happens when you deprioritize news on a platform. You don’t actually get less news. You just get more Shrimp Jesuses.”
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New York Times tech reporter
Kevin Roose, on “schlocky AI-generated garbage” replacing trusted reporting thanks to changes in Facebook’s recommendation algorithm. A recent, emblematic example:
Shrimp Jesus, a series of AI-generated images of messianic crustaceans that went viral repeatedly, fooling boomers, rewarding scammers, and further eroding people’s sense of reality.
