{"id":250330,"date":"2025-12-25T05:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/250330\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:08:20","slug":"pinterest-users-are-tired-of-all-the-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/250330\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop"},"content":{"rendered":"

For five years, Caitlyn Jones has used Pinterest<\/a> on a weekly basis to find recipes for her son. In September, Jones spotted a creamy chicken and broccoli slow-cooker recipe, sprinkled with golden cheddar and a pop of parsley. She quickly looked at the ingredients and added them to her grocery list. But just as she was about to start cooking, having already bought everything, one thing stood out: The recipe<\/a> told her to start by \u201clogging\u201d the chicken into the slow cooker.<\/p>\n

Confused, she clicked on<\/a> the recipe blog\u2019s \u201cAbout\u201d page. An uncannily perfect-looking woman beamed back at her, golden light bouncing off her apron and tousled hair. Jones realized instantly what appeared to be going on: The woman was AI-generated.<\/p>\n

\u201cHi there, I\u2019m Souzan Thorne!\u201d the page read. \u201cI grew up in a home where the kitchen was the heart of everything.\u201d The accompanying images were flawless but odd, the biography vague and generic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems dumb I didn\u2019t catch this sooner, but being in my normal grocery shop rush, I didn\u2019t even think this would be an issue,\u201d says Jones, who lives in California. Backed into a culinary corner, she made the dubious dish, and it wasn\u2019t good: The watery, bland chicken left a bad taste in her mouth.<\/p>\n

Needing to vent, she turned to the subreddit r\/Pinterest, which has become a town square for disgruntled users. \u201cPinterest is losing everything people loved, which was authentic Pins and authentic people,\u201d she wrote. She says that she\u2019s since sworn off the app entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI slop\u201d is a term for low-quality, mass-produced, AI-generated content clogging up the internet, from videos<\/a> to books<\/a> to posts on Medium.<\/a> And Pinterest users say the site is rife with it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an \u201cunappetizing gruel being forcefully fed to us,\u201d Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech, wrote in his recently published taxonomy<\/a> of AI slop. And \u201cSouzan\u201d\u2014for whom a Google search doesn\u2019t turn up a single result\u2014is only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll platforms have decided this is part of the new normal,\u201d Mantzarlis tells WIRED. \u201cIt is a huge part of the content being produced across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Enshittification”<\/p>\n

Pinterest launched in 2010 and marketed<\/a> itself as a \u201cvisual discovery engine for finding ideas.\u201d The site remained ad-free for years, building a loyal community of creatives. It has since grown<\/a> to over half a billion active users. But, according to some unhappy users, their feeds have begun to reflect a very different world in recently.<\/p>\n

Pinterest\u2019s feed is mostly images, which means it\u2019s more susceptible to AI slop than video-led sites, says Mantzarlis, as realistic images are typically easier for models to generate than videos. The platform also funnels users toward outside sites, and those outbound clicks are easier for content farms to monetize than on-site followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For five years, Caitlyn Jones has used Pinterest on a weekly basis to find recipes for her son.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[289,10080,18,19,17,21157,1114,130185,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-250330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-cooking","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-pinterest","14":"tag-social-media","15":"tag-spam","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115778480015649298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}