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Oscar Gonzalez

AI slop ended up on Nvidia and CDC pages. All it took was some neglected URLs and a little SEO magic.

AI generated art using Stable Diffusion showing two people close to kissing, hiding the word love.

There's a strange phenomenon happening on what appear to be legitimate websites from major companies like Nvidia and federal agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that are hosting AI slop.

It appears that a spam marketing operation hijacked abandoned subdomains from companies and organizations, including Nvidia, the CDC, American Council on Education, Stanford, and NPR, according to a report from 404 Media. The AI slop found on these sites ranged from a hub for vaccines explaining what jets were flown in the movie Top Gun to Brazilian fart games on an Nvidia event page and just a lot of porn.

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