> created by people with a great sense of humor

The real problem with AI slop is not the AI. It's the people. It's always the people.

The clickbait has started fooling people more than before, with the latest videos being halfway believable (except for the circumstances of the videos).

Technology enables the most malicious and self-interested, and systems need to be adjusted to not reward that, or users need to become wise to it.

With the amount of early 2000's style clickbait ads still around, I'm not sure we ever vanquished Web 1.0 style clickbait, it just got crowded out by ever more sophisticated forms.