AI Slop Hacks Amazon Rankings

An alleged 'slop king' reportedly mass‑produces AI‑generated products and juices Amazon’s algorithm with paid influencers and foreign bot armies to move inventory, netting about $3 million. The playbook turns marketplaces into distribution engines for low‑quality content at scale, exploiting ranking, review, and social‑traffic signals. — If platforms can be reliably gamed this way, trust in online markets and the broader information economy erodes, pushing regulators and platforms toward verification, provenance, and anti‑bot enforcement.