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The Love-Hate Relationship With AI Unfolding on Social Media

Bloomberg Technology Friday 25 September 2026, 17:23 UTC 1 min read
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It has been a head-spinning time of change for social media content creators as AI slop proliferates all over the Internet. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast recorded live at the Vermont Hollywood theater, Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter, and Taylor Lorenz, founder of User Mag, tell Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway why people love some genres of slop and what type of content audiences still prefer to be created by humans.

It has been a head-spinning time of change for social media content creators as AI slop proliferates all over the Internet. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast recorded live at the Vermont Hollywood theater, Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter, and Taylor Lorenz, founder of User Mag, tell Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway why people love some genres of slop and what type of content audiences still prefer to be created by humans. (Source: Bloomberg)
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