Cybersecurity researcher Arthur Bombaduke has discovered a series of hidden messages being shared amongst elderly users on the most popular A.I. Slop sharing site of them all, Facebook. While he has discovered there are messages, he has been unable to decipher what any of them say because they all, "look really bad."
The images include text, some filled to the brim and some with the bare minimum to get the point across. If you squint, you can sometimes guess what it's supposed to say, like the name of a city or a misspelled slogan. It's this text that holds the hidden message. The elderly are able to understand its meaning, while younger generations don't even see the images. They continue to scroll, skipping past the images entirely once they recognize it as A.I. Slop.
Bombaduke has compiled his research into a report. "We believe they are coordinating a way to take over more websites. To what end, we do not know." It goes on to make the case that whatever is being planned could be just the beginning. Because the elderly love those images too damn much to stop sharing once their demands are met.
After picking up steam online Bombaduke, an Ohio native, held a press conference at the University of Virginia, so he could plan a weekend trip around the event and expense some of the costs. In the press conference Bombaduke reiterated, "At this time, we believe there's no need to panic. While these users may be able to plan in plain view of everyone, there's no guarantee they have the means to act on that information. Many of them have missed messages and haven't been able to catch up due to Facebook's lack of a time-based feed."