If you want a portal back to when the internet wasn’t exceptionally shit, this browser extension will be a must have.
With the mountains of AI generated trash being blasted into cyberspace since every “creator” made ChatGPT their entire personality, you can see where this shitshow is heading.
And it’s nowhere good.
Websites are spoofing their metadata, which might seem harmless on the surface but is actually digital equivalent of cancer.
Google used to have all these nifty search operators you could throw into the search box to tailor your results with the accuracy of scalpel cut.
The “before:YYYY-MM-DD” operator was top fucking tier for research.
Want to see what people actually thought about something before the AI opinion bots took over?
Boom. Real human thoughts from real human times. (back in my day lol)
But in the past month, I’ve noticed articles and sites spoofing their metadata. Remember that show Catfish? Well that but for website authenticity.
They’ll claim to be from 2010 but the search picks up text blurbs that are obviously from present day AI word vomit.
It’s like time travel, except instead of going back to see dinosaurs, you’re just getting more algorithmic bullshit.
While tech bros push for their fully AI generated internet utopia, we’re racing toward a reality where truth won’t exist.
We’ll all be fed our own personalised version of “truth,” which is already happening faster than a drunk person falling down stairs.
These platforms know us better than we know ourselves, which is both impressive and terrifying as fuck.
Here’s how cooked we are…
Let’s say you’re heavily left leaning. Cool. Your views are your views. But when you visit a right leaning website, their AI immediately reads your digital fingerprint and serves up left leaning rhetoric to keep you engaged and buying shit.
So you never actually get your views challenged. You’re just constantly fed ideas that massage your confirmation bias at the cellular level.
It’s intellectual masturbation at best.
This isn’t new though.
Marketers have been split-testing different pages forever.
But now AI can serve up content tailored specifically to your psychological profile in milliseconds.
Real time manipulation at the speed of light.
It’s coming, and when it fully arrives, as the kids say: “We’re cooked.”
So where do we go when there’s no escape from the matrix?
Pen and paper? Sitting around campfires telling stories? Transcendental sex parties?
Fuck if I know.
But at least Slop Evader gives us a fighting chance to see some actual human generated content before the robots finish turning our brains into porridge.
Download it before they make that illegal too.
Stephen Walker.