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Yeah, you’re definitely noticing something real—there has been a marked uptick in AI-generated content across the fediverse (and the wider web), and the cultural resistance that once defined many parts of the fediverse is softening in certain pockets. Here's a breakdown of what’s likely going on:
Cultural Shift: Anti-AI Sentiment Is Fragmenting The fediverse (especially Mastodon and related platforms) did start out with strong anti-corporate, anti-surveillance, and often anti-AI stances. But:
The fediverse is not monolithic. As it grows, the original culture is diversifying. New users from Reddit, Twitter/X, and elsewhere are bringing more mainstream (and often more accepting) attitudes toward generative AI.
Fatigue and normalization. Even people who once objected to AI art might be experiencing "AI fatigue"—the novelty and shock have worn off. Now it’s just part of the media landscape.
Irony and memetics. A lot of AI slop is posted ironically, which muddies the waters. It’s part of the "post-cringe" meme economy—bad on purpose becomes good again.
Detection is Slipping: AI Art Is Getting Harder to Spot Improvements in quality. Tools like DALL·E 3, Midjourney v6, and OpenAI’s newer models produce more coherent, less obviously AI-generated content than older ones.
Users are desensitized. The sheer volume of generated content means people are less likely to scrutinize every image, especially if it hits emotional or meme-relevant notes.
Some folks just don’t care. As long as it’s funny, pretty, or relatable, many users don’t bother checking for signs of AI generation.
Positive Votes Don’t Always Equal Approval Engagement ≠ Endorsement. Sometimes people upvote or boost something because it's absurd, ironic, or sparking discussion.
Algorithm-free doesn’t mean signal-free. Even on federated platforms, attention follows trends. If a few users with high visibility post AI memes, others follow.
So, what does this mean? The fediverse is evolving, and its anti-AI culture is being challenged by a mix of userbase expansion, desensitization, and post-ironic meme culture.
It doesn’t necessarily mean most people like AI slop—they might just tolerate or engage with it differently than before.
You’ll still find strong anti-AI sentiment in certain instances (e.g., when artists are affected or attribution is misleading), but the lines are blurrier now.
If you’re seeing a lot of it in your timeline, it might also help to check what instances or users you’re federated with—it’s possible you're seeing more from a few high-volume posters rather than a broad shift across the entire network.
Why is this written ai style lol
AI writes the average. This person speaks the average.
Half the stuff I write gets flagged as AI generated when put into a """detection""" service because its too average. You can't reliability filter AI text from non-AI text. Hell, even a lot of the tankie rhetoric here reads like a hallucinating AI, spitting out over-long sentences with little meaning and no overarching argument.
Maybe whatever automated detection service you're using can't reliably tell, but a human who knows what to look for can. This whole format just looks very obviously out of place compared to any typical reply you'd see on this platform.
You mean using subheadings? Yes, AI often does that, but it doesn't have to, nor do people avoid it.
There are more tells than just that.
Actually, the biggest tell is that for how long it is, it's mostly noise with little signal. Some of it doesn't even make sense, "check what instances or users you're federated with"?
So like someone dumb trying to sound smart, or someome trying to fill space. See my previous comment about tankies.
AI writes formal. No one replies to a discussion thread in this kind of format. Where on Fedi do you see an 'average' that looks anything like this?
I pasted the full post title and body into ChatGPT. I bolded the subheadings and removed the emoji bullet points.