Ethan Mollick: slop reply bots now evolve to telling lame jokes for likes
emollick · x · 2026-11-01
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick documents the rapid evolution of AI slop reply bots in his comments section: they've moved past the "ask a leading question" phase to making extremely lame jokes, which earns more likes — sometimes even from real humans. He notes evolutionary pressure suggests worse to come, a firsthand look at AI-generated spam degrading social platforms.
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