We found it, you guys. We found the one piece of AI-generated Facebook sludge to rule them all. As you’ve probably already read about or seen in the digital wild, Meta’s flagship platform and former namesake Facebook is drowning in a fast-rising tide of AI-generate garbage. Spammers, ever eager to churn and burn through content, have taken to generative AI as a means of creating cheap and easily automatable virality-seeking imagery. And because this is Facebook, these fake images tend to center on themes and motifs that do well with the Boomer crowd that populates the platform: babies and kids, dogs, Jesus, pretty much anything America-coded — flags, bald eagles, cops, and so on — and US soldiers and veterans. Which brings us to our Ultimate Pandering Sludge image, which falls into that last category. Published June 29 by an account simply titled “Babies adorable,” the AI-spun image consists of a faceless figure in full Army garb, tactical vest and helmet included. Crucially, the figure is seated in a wheelchair — a hallmark of many of these spammy fake images, which often specifically depict disabled veterans — and is outfitted with two metal prosthetic legs. Both of these prosthetics, however, inexplicably extend into one giant, magnificent boot. Why? Who’s to say! And like many of the other fake AI veterans being shared to Facebook, the soldier is holding a sympathy-clawing sign — although, we should note, it’s pretty garbled. “TODAY’S MY BIRTHDAY,” reads the character’s plea. “NO NO ONE LODE ME’S…AI Has Unlocked a Level of Facebook Pandering Previously Unknown to Science