--- title: "Man Realizes He Can Feed Poison Pills to Facebook AI Slop Page, Driving Its Followers Berserk" description: "After noticing an AI Facebook paging was ripping off his posts, one man found a clever way of getting revenge." date: "2025-12-02" modified: "2025-12-02" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-slop-poison-pill" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" --- # Man Realizes He Can Feed Poison Pills to Facebook AI Slop Page, Driving Its Followers Berserk ![After noticing an AI Facebook paging was ripping off his posts, one man found a clever way of getting revenge.]() *Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images* AI bros love cribbing what humans make so they can churn out loads of [meaningless slop](). But one of those humans wasn't going to take getting ripped off without fighting back. Scott Collette, a Hollywood screenwriter who runs the popular "Forgotten Los Angeles" account on Instagram, says he noticed that an AI Facebook account was stealing his history posts for the past six weeks and "slopping out new captions." So to retaliate, he's been "feeding it poison pills," Collette said in a [recent post](), causing the page's followers to have "meltdowns" in the comments. In one example, the AI slop page, dubbed "Historical Los Angeles USA," shares a photo of what appears to be the horrific flood that swallowed the city nearly a century ago. The post's caption, though, was an eyebrow-raiser: "A lake made of conservative tears (2025)." "This satirical caption reflects the intense political climate of the era, where online culture embraced humor, exaggeration, and meme style commentary to express frustration or celebration," the description asserts, in an amazing display of AI's ability to bullshit an answer about literally anything. "This 'lake' represents digital era emotional exhaustion, ideological clashes, and the dramatic style of commentary that defined the mid 2020s," it added. "It captures a moment when humor felt like both protest and release." https://bsky.app/profile/scottcollette.bsky.social/post/3m6sudisfgc2a The outrage from the page's followers was palpable. "What kinda word salad is this? The left has no sense of humor," replied one commenter. "More BS captions from this bot site," fumed another. Others clocked it for what it was: "AI slop." Or as another user so eloquently described it, "AI feeding off its own excrement." Facebook has been [taken over by AI slop]() perhaps more than any other large social media site. It's the birthplace of AI-hallucinated fever dreams like "[Shrimp Jesus]()," likely because its older demographic are ripe for being duped by its photorealistic imagery and authoritative sounding text. It doesn't help that the platform rewards the kind of engagement driven by low quality AI content, [making it profitable to run these AI accounts](). To dupe the AI page, Collette [previously explained]() that he noticed the AI was scraping his old content in chronological order, so he started editing each post right before it stole them. It's continuing to pay dividends. In another bogus post, the AI-run page tries to pass off a photo of what appears to be a car dealership as "Charlie Chaplin's Early Los Angeles Home (1905)." "Looks like a 1920s car dealership," a user observed. "He never lived in one." The AI floodgates may be long open, but Collette is relishing in getting a little payback. "It's been pretty spectacular," he wrote. **More on AI:** [*CEO of Fortnite Maker Furious That Steam Is Labeling Games With AI-Generated Assets*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()