The AI Slop Problem Gets Its Own Self-Aware Fan Base

Even the security research community admits to loving AI-generated cat images, and users are aggressively dismissing Google's AI mode popups — a portrait of an internet at war with itself over generative content.

The cultural tension around AI-generated content reached a quietly telling moment on Thursday. @vxunderground, the well-known cybersecurity research collective, confessed a "deep love for silly cat AI slop" — an admission notable because vxunderground is exactly the type of technically sophisticated audience that understands how these images are made and why they're everywhere. Meanwhile, @Puff_Iya went viral with a post about reflexively hitting "not interested" every time Google surfaces its AI mode popup.

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