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'Brainrot' AI on Instagram Monetizing the Most Fucked Up Things You Can Imagine (404media.co)
53 points by CharlesW 26 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



> Monetized “brainrot” reels is generative AI’s killer app

These images provoke dark, negative emotions. This type of emotions are heavier and thus they feel more intense. This is why many users (Instagram addicts) have the backwards desire to repeat these emotions, even though they understand that this will do no good for them. So they find more images like that, their mind reflects the images in thoughts to provoke the heavy emotions. Slowly their mind warps to adapt to the kind of "content" it's trained to watch and the users get stuck in this warped thoughts <-> dark emotions loop. In the near future these Instagram reels will become interactive and we'll get the ultimate AI soul killer app.



Why link to the instas instead of just screen grabs? Obnoxious to help them get more attention


Agreed


It's just the new generation's version of 2edgy or rotten.com. It's really nothing to see, and will inevitably fall out of favor once they get older.




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