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His account grew beyond 133,000 followers, while AI-generated pictures and videos continued to appear across social media. Because it was the child’s birthday, they sat in a busy road in pouring rain beside a birthday cake, while a sign asked people to like the image.
He said, “Kids in the third world doing impressive stuff is always popular – like a poor kid in Africa making an insane statue out of trash. The company said it aimed to connect users with high-quality content regardless of how it was made and was working to reduce the spread of low-quality AI material. A fake image of two impoverished children sitting in a rain-soaked road with a birthday cake pushed Théodore Cazals to challenge misleading AI content online. The picture, which showed two emaciated children with thick beards, attracted nearly one million likes and heart emojis on Facebook. Cazals began his campaign after seeing a Facebook image of two children who appeared emaciated and impoverished. Despite their boyish features, they had thick beards; one had no hands and only one foot. The examples sent to Cazals began to reveal recurring themes. Religion, military subjects and poor children doing heartwarming things were common. I think people find it wholesome so the creators think, ‘Great, let’s make more of this stuff up”. Cazals described AI slop as fake, unconvincing videos and pictures made quickly. He later used his reach on X to alert YouTube moderators to strange AI cartoons that got huge numbers of views. He considered them disturbing and harmful, and some appeared to him to be aimed at children. Some of the videos Cazals flagged showed scenes, including a cat story involving deadly belly parasites and a woman who ate a parasite, became a giant monster and was eventually healed by Jesus. YouTube removed the channels after finding they violated its community guidelines.