"Facebook's AI-Generated Fever Dreams: A Viral Phenomenon Among Gullible Boomers"

Facebook is inundated with AI-generated content that is attracting attention from its aging user base, with scammers and spammers exploiting this trend to grow their audiences and drive traffic to dubious websites filled with ads. Stanford and Georgetown University researchers found that Facebook's algorithms are rewarding AI spam accounts, resulting in massive engagement and views. The platform's parent company Meta has yet to comment on the flood of AI-generated junk, but researchers suggest implementing measures to address the issue, as Google has done. With Facebook's history of lax content moderation and a declining user base, the problem of AI-generated content is unlikely to disappear on its own.