WWE Videos Made by a Glitching AI That Sounds Like It’s Being Strangled Are the Future of Entertainment
A series of AI-generated WWE documentary videos on YouTube, featuring a glitchy narrator that devolves into strangled-sounding audio for minutes at a time, have gone viral, sparking fascination and debate about algorithmic content creation. The videos appear to exploit YouTube's recommendation system, thriving on autoplay and viewer curiosity despite—or because of—their technical flaws. Created with little to no human oversight, they resemble a form of 'digital Nigel Richards,' mastering content delivery not through meaning but through pattern exploitation. This phenomenon highlights the rise of 'AI slop,' content optimized for engagement rather than quality or intent.
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There’s this guy named Nigel Richards, a professional Scrabble player from New Zealand, whose brain is not like yours or mine. He wins world championships in languages he doesn’t speak, like Spanish and French. The way he strategizes is, I suppose, recognizable as human thought, but just barely. I mean watch:cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000751966","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai-slop,artificial-intelligence,wwe,youtube","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); <iframe title="The Best Scrabble…
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