"So to retaliate, he's been "feeding it poison pills," Collette said in a recent post, causing the page's followers to have "meltdowns" in the comments. In one example, the AI slop page, dubbed "Historical Los Angeles USA," shares a photo of what appears to be the horrific flood that swallowed the city nearly a century ago. The post's caption, though, was an eyebrow-raiser: "A lake made of conservative tears (2025).""
""This satirical caption reflects the intense political climate of the era, where online culture embraced humor, exaggeration, and meme style commentary to express frustration or celebration," the description asserts, in an amazing display of AI's ability to bullshit an answer about literally anything. "This 'lake' represents digital era emotional exhaustion, ideological clashes, and the dramatic style of commentary that defined the mid 2020s," it added. "It captures a moment when humor felt like both protest and release.""
A Hollywood screenwriter who runs the "Forgotten Los Angeles" Instagram account noticed an AI Facebook account copying his history posts for six weeks and generating new captions. The AI page, called "Historical Los Angeles USA," paired historical photos with outlandish, anachronistic captions that provoked followers. One caption read "A lake made of conservative tears (2025)," followed by a sprawling, fabricated explanation. The screenwriter deliberately fed the AI false or absurd captions as "poison pills," which triggered angry and mocking responses in the comments. The incident highlights proliferating AI-generated, hallucinatory content on social platforms and user backlash.
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