Post #4250731

2026-07-30 19:13 UTC

If a company with a "Generate this with AI" button also gives you a "Report AI Slop" button, you should know that your protest vote is being used to train the models until the slop is invisible.

Replies (5)

@uberduck@hachyderm.io 2026-07-30 19:16

@mhoye@cosocial.ca I think the assignment is clear.

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@javier@col.social 2026-07-30 19:18

@mhoye@cosocial.ca but if slop is invisible is it still slop?

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@bignose@theblower.au 2026-07-30 19:41

Seems to me they're asking for every single output to be reported, @mhoye@cosocial.ca

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@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com 2026-07-30 19:54

@mhoye@cosocial.ca I’m good with that. It’s like cheaters in a video game. If I report enough of them, they only play against themselves.

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@401matthall@mastodon.xyz 2026-07-30 20:05

@mhoye@cosocial.ca I used to feel slightly paranoid when chat/video services would ask, "How was the video/audio quality?" I'm now completely convinced this is used as a metric to throttle bandwidth on future calls when a sufficient number of participants register the call as "good" quality. The users would literally _tune_ the bandwidth over time to the lowest bearable quality. I don't even _feel_ crazy for thinking this anymore. Everything is awful.

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