> Also, imagine all the dollars wasted. Dollars wasted on generating the stuff, dollars wasted to accommodate the traffic, there has got to be some incentive to stop the slop.

This is what I'm curious about. Someone, a rather large amount of "someones", must be making bank from the AI generated content that is flooding the platforms. Some metric somewhere must be misinterpreted in some way that someone willingly pays for the AI content that no one(?) consumes. The question is where the money ends up and who is paying it.