AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy
2026-04-15 · WIRED
A study confirms what we all suspected: AI-generated content is flooding the internet with relentlessly positive, saccharine slop that's making everything feel fake. The synthetic cheerfulness is apparently distorting online discourse and drowning out authentic human expression. Nothing says 'technological progress' like an army of bots turning the internet into a Hallmark card nobody asked for.