"Now, thanks to the advent of accessible text-to-video generators, which can cough up footage from a simple text prompt, the situation on Facebookand other Meta platforms is turning from dire to disastrous. A quick perusal of the r/FacebookAIslop subreddit reveals the macabre underbelly of the AI slop world, once again highlighting how social media feeds have turned from posts created by our friends and family into an endless parade of mind-numbing drek."
"One 50-second video making its rounds shows what appears to be a humanoid cat cooking a meal, only for its kitten-shaped daughter to dive headfirst into a meat grinder and be turned to pulp. The kitten's parents remain unaware, only to puke up green sludge after unintentionally eating their offspring. The baffling clip ends with the mother cat being arrested by the police, leaving her feline husband sobbing on the floor."
"Another clip, originally posted on Meta's Instagram, shows a "shark doctor" spraying a Black baby white with paint, while charring a white baby with a torch in what appears to be a maternity ward. The clip is chock-full of bafflingly racist stereotypes. Yet another clip shows a goosebumps-inducingly photorealistic cat with eight spider legs crawling down the side of a wall."
Facebook and Instagram feeds are increasingly populated by AI-generated, low-quality text-to-video content that is often violent, grotesque, and racially charged. Early examples of AI junk such as "shrimp Jesus" presaged a larger influx of nonsensical imagery and led Merriam-Webster to name "slop" its 2025 word of the year. Accessible text-to-video generators now produce photorealistic but disturbing clips that include gore, racist stereotypes, and surreal mutations. Communities like r/FacebookAIslop collect and expose these clips, showing a shift from personal posts toward algorithm-amplified AI drek. The volume and appeal of such content make significant reduction unlikely without platform-level changes.
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