Why doesn't Facebook just ban AI slop like Shrimp Jesus?

AI "slop" images all over Facebook . They're surreal and sometimes grotesque. Pure engagement bait.

There's even a Twitter/X account dedicated to posting the most ridiculous stuff. So why isn't Facebook cracking down? Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read preview Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go.

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A woman bicycling with a basket full of babies and burritos . This is all "AI slop," the new term describing the sudden flood of garbage AI-generated content, from ebooks to viral photos. Slop is everywhere on the internet, but its most pure version exists on Facebook.

This is the Shrimp Jesus kind of slop: bizarre, obviously fake, and sometimes vaguely unsettling in a trypophobia-triggering way. Common themes involve old people holding a birthday cake asking you to wish them a happy birthday; babies doing things babies shouldn't do; snakes eating buses, bikes, or other vehicles overloaded with hundreds of babies or some other cargo; soldiers with prosthetic legs; women with missing limbs and huge busts; and Jesus. The images are often sort of eerily exploitative.