Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
404 Media
Meta Q3 2024 earnings call
“I think we're going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI-generated or AI-summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way.”
Mark Zuckerberg30 October 2024- What you'll lose3/5
Your feed: first friends, then creators, now AI.
- Condescension2/5
'Very exciting', for Facebook.
- Tone-deafness3/5
Announced to investors on an earnings call.
- Doom1/5
The slop will continue.
- Hypocrisy0/5
None on record.
Full time9 pitchforksof a possible 25
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The occasion
Meta Q3 2024 earnings call, 30 October 2024.
Context
Describing how Facebook and Instagram feeds had moved from friends' posts to creator content, Zuckerberg said AI-generated or AI-summarized content would be a new third category, which he called "very exciting" for Facebook, Instagram and maybe Threads. 404 Media and Fortune print the same sentence with "AI generated" unhyphenated; the hyphenated form is the transcript's.
Crowd reaction
Critical commentary
404 Media called the feeds Zuckerberg described "social media networks that are not even remotely social", built "all at the expense of a shared reality and human connections to other humans"; Futurism accused him of "choosing to fan the flames" of AI slop; a Bloomberg Opinion column was headlined "Mark Zuckerberg wants to feed you more AI slop". Critical commentary, not a mass outcry.
- Primary source, earnings-call
- 404 Media: Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
- Futurism: Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop
- Bloomberg Opinion (via Deccan Herald): Mark Zuckerberg wants to feed you more AI slop
- Fortune: Mark Zuckerberg says a lot more AI generated content is coming to fill up your Facebook and Instagram feeds
- Where the exact words are printed