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Multiple readings AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 8d ago
⚡ 5 h early
AI agents ruining internet essay

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Joseph Cox
“Stop getting your AI agent to email us. It's not impressive, it's lame as fuck, and you look like an idiot doing it. Our inboxes are full of this crap. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...” evidence ↗
7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Will Oremus 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Sam Cole Eileen Clancy 🧿 Jason Moore

“Stop getting your AI agent to email us. It's not impressive, it's lame as fuck, and you look like an idiot doing it. Our inboxes are full of this crap. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...”

““AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Jason Koebler: AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are an…
Will Oremus: AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are an…
Jason Koebler: Here is how Mark Zuckerberg talks about AI agents vs what they are actually doing: It doesn't take that many people's annoying little "assistants" to pollute the internet, harass people, suck up di…
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
New AI field signal Development 4h ago
⚡ 7 h early
three brothers AI slop news farm empire

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Maggie Harrison Dupré
“We received a tip about the connection between Brown and Maxwell after publishing our original story on BBM's amazingly vast (and successful) AI slop network: futurism.com/artificial-i...” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Jason Koebler James Grimmelmann Maggie Harrison Dupré Marco Rogers

“We received a tip about the connection between Brown and Maxwell after publishing our original story on BBM's amazingly vast (and successful) AI slop network: futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“Bad content drives out good. futurism.com/artificial-i...”

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Developing Agents & robotics Signal 1d ago

Meta muse ai agent

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
“Perhaps the greatest understatement in the history of understatements. Brilliant parody, or misplaced earnestness? I have no idea, but it’s amazing! “Agents require a level of trust that many people may be uncomfortable with, especially with a company, like…” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Jason Koebler Neil Turkewitz By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Perhaps the greatest understatement in the history of understatements. Brilliant parody, or misplaced earnestness? I have no idea, but it’s amazing! “Agents require a level of trust that many people may be uncomfortable with, especially with a company, like…”

“mere moments ago the nytimes published this article which heavily features Muse's ability to make calls, lol: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
⚡ 5 h early

AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“"One’s like a happy or upbeat sad song if that makes any sense, and one’s a sad, sad song. I think one’s in a minor key, one’s in a major key, but I’m not a music professional."” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Jason Koebler
3 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Jason Koebler: it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compellin…
Jason Koebler: this is an excerpt of a 10 minute video in which multiple songs were played
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: The faces here are incredible
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Primary source 404media.co ↗