Meta is expanding the reach of its short-form video feed, which heavily features AI-generated content, to users across Europe. The move sees the company bringing its algorithmically curated streams, often criticized as “AI slop” due to their perceived low quality, repetitive nature, and questionable authenticity, to a broader audience on its platforms like Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n
This rollout reflects Meta’s ongoing strategy to boost engagement and compete in the short-video market, leaning heavily on artificial intelligence to populate feeds with a seemingly endless stream of content. While designed to personalize user experiences and keep eyeballs on the apps, critics voice concerns about the potential for further proliferation of misleading or unoriginal material, and the impact on genuine human-created content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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