Each of my posts has dozens of obvious and numbing AI slopreplies. Worse, when humans really do reply (real example: someone from Anthropic addressing the issue I posted about), the "replies" algorithm does not surface them first You can't really call this social media anymore.

What happened

Each of my posts has dozens of obvious and numbing AI slopreplies. Worse, when humans really do reply (real example: someone from Anthropic addressing the issue I posted about), the "replies" algorithm does not surface them first You can't really call this social media anymore.

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Ethan Mollick criticized X’s reply ranking, saying each of his posts attracts dozens of obvious AI-generated replies while substantive human responses are not surfaced first. He cited a reply from someone at Anthropic addressing an issue he had posted about as an example of a human response the algorithm failed to prioritize. Mollick described the AI replies as numbing and argued that the experience no longer deserved to be called social media.