Vibes and the flood of AI generated clips
Meta new feature Vibes offers a TikTok style feed, but instead of human creators it leans heavily on automatically generated clips. The system uses user prompts and engagement patterns to churn out short videos that match current trends, memes or moods.
The article raises concerns that such feeds could amplify what critics call AI slop, cheap synthetic media tuned only for engagement metrics. It also points out that if large platforms flood their own apps with machine made content, smaller human creators may struggle even more to find an audience.
The author suggests that Vibes is an experiment in seeing how far users will go in trading authenticity for infinite novelty. It is a test case for the social web after generative media becomes trivial to produce.
