Culture AI Slop YouTube Channels Are Telling AI Slop Google About AI Slop Motorcycles That Don't Exist - Google, the company once known for finding accurate results as fast as possible, now relies on AI that has no concept of "truth" to feed you false information.

https://www.jalopnik.com/1884156/ai-slop-fake-motorcycle-youtube-channels-in-google-searches

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Earlier today, I was talking about V4 engines in motorcycles, and I made a quick Google search: "Motorcycle V4 engines 2025." I was just looking to confirm what I already knew, that the Aprilia RSV4 and Ducati Panigale V4 are the only production sportbikes to use that engine layout, but Google informed me of something else: A revived Yamaha VMAX, currently for sale in the year of our lord 2025.

This is, of course, not true. Yamaha hasn't made the VMAX since 2020, and as far as anyone can tell there are no plans to bring it back. So where did Google get the idea that this bike was currently on the market? Well, luckily, the AI credits its source: An AI-generated, AI-voiced video on an all-AI YouTube channel, using nonsensical AI imagery to claim a new VMAX is on the way. The snake is eating its own AI-generated tail.

The internet is getting fundamentally broken

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The cited video is from a channel called Bike Culture Hub — a channel I will not be linking — which has a very rote program for its videos. There's some AI-generated still imagery of an imagined bike overlaid with an AI voice that lists off facts and figured about the motorcycle. The stats are nonsensical, the voice often gets things as simple as the name of the motorcycle wrong, and — it cannot be emphasized enough — none of the motorcycles it discusses are real. On the occasion the channel discusses a current motorcycle, it'll talk about model-year updates that a generative AI has hallucinated.

To any observer who knows the first thing about the bikes in question — or bikes in general — anything on these AI-generated YouTube channels is clear garbage with no bearing on reality. But Google, the company once known for finding accurate results as fast as possible, now relies on an AI that has no concept of "truth" — just repeating words it sees used in proximity to each other, like your phone keyboard's autocomplete or a particularly dumb parrot. As this AI tech improves in its ability to mimic reality, while still remaining fundamentally incapable of differentiating fact from fiction, channels like Bike Culture Hub will only get more convincing. Our human ability to locate facts online will be compromised, and "people at dealerships asking for features that don't exist" is about the best possible outcome. It could get far worse from there.


AI slop getting more and more invasive. Daily reminder to triple-check every piece of info you see and read.
 
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I think that ultimately the tech broligarchs will find their platforms choking to death on their own insistence that AI is the solution to all their problems. Fire all the humans and replace them with AI.

Elon wanted to shut down Social Security's human customer service reps and force great-grandma to use a chatbot on a shittily coded website as the only way to contact SS. With all the examples of cheap AI chatbots going hilariously wrong, like that time when the off-the-shelf chatbot on the website for some shithole Chevrolet dealer in some taconig-infested part of Cali got hacked and was selling cars for $1, the potential for the entire welfare system to go sideways once Chinese spiescomputer science grad students got a hold of the chatbots was very real. Thankfully Elon was too doped up to make it work before Orange Man got sick of him and tossed him out the door.

But now you have people like Zuckerchan trying to make it work and failing to the extent that Zuck is reportedly screaming constantly at his engineers bc they can't get LLaMA or whatever the fuck Meta's AI is called this week to work. Google's C-Suite will happily woodchipper their entire business model in order to be on the bleeding edge until they bleed out and fucking die. Within a couple years the AI doom loop will reach singularity and nothing will be true on teh internetz. Then maybe we can start rebuilding it along the lines of what it was in 1997 or so, albeit with cooler looking websites.

Edit: oh yeah, forgot to drop this puppy here. AI predicted by the Dio version of Black Sabbath in 1992:

 
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Comandante Marcos said:
AI predicted by the Dio version of Black Sabbath in 1992:
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Dystopian songs about artificial intelligence and virtual reality peaked in '92.
We've all been bored of it ever since.

Anyway here's the problem: The more wrong "AI" gets, the more it will be forced into everything. Big Tech's goal, largely unconscious but not entirely, is to make it impossible to know.
 
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lol. once again technology serves as an unflattering reflection of its creators. the insipid troon (lol)(lmao) culture warrior journalist decides to write an article about the evils of the modern internet. the subject of choice: the problems inherent in 90% of the internet's traffic and content being centralized on a handful of privately controlled sites? the toxic effect of those companies controlling so much money and influence that mere crumbs falling from their table are enough to make anybody rich beyond their wildest dreams? the degenerating effect of those crumbs being spread around as a reward for people dedicating every waking moment of their lives to capering around like idiots to make these companies more ad revenue? the damage caused by the media reinforcing "influencer" culture by kissing these people's feet and rewarding them for their awful behavior?

nope, it's that AI is encroaching on the racket.

it's fine that tons of space on YouTube is taken up by pajeets just reposting other people's content. it's fine that all the videos that touch the front page are made by literal psychopaths like mrbeast with the awful soyface thumbnails. it's fine that faggots like Kai Cenat have so much influence that just about everyone under the age of 16 parrots his retarded memes and slang. it's fine that we're all forced to make wide turns to avoid having these platforms force their garbage down our throats and blast neurons off our forebrains. but it's NOT okay for AI to play the same game everybody else is playing. Google being a piece of shit company that actively attacks the sanity of everyone using the internet as part of their business model? that's just life bruh get over it. people using AI to optimize the behavior Google directly encourages and profits off of? here's my ten page editorial telling YOU why you need to be terrified of the future.

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faggot.
 
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Comandante Marcos said:
I think that ultimately the tech broligarchs will find their platforms choking to death on their own insistence that AI is the solution to all their problems. Fire all the humans and replace them with AI.
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Their wealth is quite dependent on enough people having enough money to be able to buy the things they are selling. Firing all of the humans sounds great on paper for profit increase, but once one removes the ability of most people to make (enough) money, then it creates hardship and prioritizing of basic needs over wants. If far fewer people find work, then even the stuff that they claim will be cheaper due to automation and AI will become expensive. During the Great Depression many ordinary things became unaffordable simply because many people had no jobs.
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Anyway here's the problem: The more wrong "AI" gets, the more it will be forced into everything. Big Tech's goal, largely unconscious but not entirely, is to make it impossible to know.
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They don't live in the real world, or they left it so long ago that it's a distant memory. They often entered into tech during their idealistic late teens/early twenties, and never left. They are used to being constantly told by those older then them for years that their youth and ideas would change the world, and thus they almost may never get or even accept the feedback of dissenting opinions. They think everyone thinks like them, that most people are excited for a sterile Tron world run by machines and AI where most of the population is connected to the internet and AI via implants, and assume a lot of people want this and are excited for it. This of course is unrealistic, but again, they don't live in the real world, they force their crappy ideas on it and expect everyone else to get on board.
 
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