AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In Highlight

Rob Cover, a professor at Australia's RMIT Digital Ethnography Research Centre who studies AI-generated content, broke down the structure of these posts for me in an email. It’s as formalized as a sonnet. First comes a rage-baiting setup, “in which an innocent person is wrongfully fired, evicted, scammed, loses their rightful place on public transport, or is the subject of judicial overreach.” This is followed by a turnaround: “The underdog is redeemed while the adversary is defeated, humiliated, and shamed (often as a representation of a public shaming),” says Cover.