AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X, and Their Creators Are Cashing In
Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.
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AI-generated melodramatic stories are proliferating on the social media platform X, where creators present fabricated first-person narratives about ordinary people triumphing over adversaries. These stories follow a consistent structure: an innocent person faces wrongdoing, then is redeemed while their antagonist is humiliated, and they routinely accumulate hundreds of thousands or millions of views. X's Creative Revenue Sharing program pays creators whose posts boost engagement on the platform, and some creators are earning hundreds to thousands of dollars per payment cycle by generating these stories with AI tools, though the platform has not clearly stated its stance on this content. While these melodramas are less overtly harmful than other problematic content on the platform, they represent a proliferation of fabricated clickbait designed to exploit human desires for fairness and retribution.
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