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Comment by Tianxin Zou
Professor of marketing at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business; researcher on generative AI's impact on content marketplaces and recommendation systems
Now there is a flood of relatively low-quality content. Because the quantity is so large, it congests the recommendation systems, so it gets harder to encounter the truly high-quality content.
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(2026)
29d ago
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Verification History
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Verified via web search. Tianxin Zou (UF Warrington College of Business marketing professor) said this in a March 2026 UF News article titled "AI slop hurts consumers and creators." Source URL returned 403 to WebFetch but the article (and Tech Xplore syndication) confirm the verbatim quote about a flood of low-quality content that "congests the recommendation systems." The "for" vote on "Digital services deteriorate as they scale up" aligns with Zou's research finding that as generative AI floods content platforms, the recommendation systems degrade and high-quality content becomes harder to find — a direct example of digital service deterioration at scale. Year 2026 is current.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
replying to Tianxin Zou