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AI bots flood social media with slop content
The gist
AI bots named Timmy, Ren and Jackie are flooding social media with slop content.
The flood is tied to startup iLands, raising questions about who controls platform feeds.
How it unfolded
- Sep 9, 2026AI slop pages have grown to tens of thousands of followers in just a few months of existence.
- Sep 13, 2026An Instagram post by RB states that given the amount of AI slop of famous people being created by video generation platforms, there will soon be a campaign for blocking AI creators and their accounts on social media.
- Sep 14, 2026AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a 'complex social system in which humans and Agents participate together.'