AI generated content has created an army of people who now have an accusation they can levy at any content they find to be poor quality without having to actually articulate any true assessment or critique of the content.
It has also made it necessary or reflexive for even the most conscientious person to consider if content was AI generated. Even if they never share they are considering it. No one wants to praise something only to learn a computer shit it out.
It’s all really corrosive to creativity and the place it holds in our social fabric.
“Slop” was brewing as a term just as AI generated video blew up. It was primed for launch by drama slop YouTube channels and other content slop on video platforms. But it exploded into common use as a result of AI generated content flooding social media platforms.
I personally hate that slop has become so broad and loose of a term. For example, “friend slop” is a really shitty brain dead term for small multiplayer games like Peak. There’s always shitty people with no taste abusing useful terms like this.
I think “AI slop” is great tho. And big tech CEOs can cry all they want about that one.
It frustrating when I see all the shitty posts in indie game forums like “This looks like AI. Prove that it’s not” and then troll the developer. Witch hunts like that is what will piss people off to turn on the Fuck AI crowd.
If ai really is that bad then you shouldn’t have to worry about accidentally liking something made by ai. Making sure it isn’t ai before praising it is just biased
I dunno. There’s something hollow in pure AI hallucinated images, video and music. Finding it beautiful or good feels like preferring one flavor of white noise over another. Undifferentiated sensory input with no human craft.
There’s definitely nuance and a spectrum to how much AI is used and how it is executed. I’m being prejudiced against prompted images and videos and songs specifically. Anything directly spit out by AI with a text string as input.
I have an open mind about things cobbled together by an artist blending traditional techniques with AI.
AI generated content has created an army of people who now have an accusation they can levy at any content they find to be poor quality without having to actually articulate any true assessment or critique of the content.
It has also made it necessary or reflexive for even the most conscientious person to consider if content was AI generated. Even if they never share they are considering it. No one wants to praise something only to learn a computer shit it out.
It’s all really corrosive to creativity and the place it holds in our social fabric.
I’m glad the accusation has become a kind of insult, applied to low quality works.
“Slop” was brewing as a term just as AI generated video blew up. It was primed for launch by drama slop YouTube channels and other content slop on video platforms. But it exploded into common use as a result of AI generated content flooding social media platforms.
I personally hate that slop has become so broad and loose of a term. For example, “friend slop” is a really shitty brain dead term for small multiplayer games like Peak. There’s always shitty people with no taste abusing useful terms like this.
I think “AI slop” is great tho. And big tech CEOs can cry all they want about that one.
It frustrating when I see all the shitty posts in indie game forums like “This looks like AI. Prove that it’s not” and then troll the developer. Witch hunts like that is what will piss people off to turn on the Fuck AI crowd.
I hate how it’s being used as a scapegoat, and is letting rich assholes get away with the typical laziness that they have always employed.
AI is a fucking tool. That’s it! If you use it to write slop, that’s on you, not the LLM.
If ai really is that bad then you shouldn’t have to worry about accidentally liking something made by ai. Making sure it isn’t ai before praising it is just biased
I dunno. There’s something hollow in pure AI hallucinated images, video and music. Finding it beautiful or good feels like preferring one flavor of white noise over another. Undifferentiated sensory input with no human craft.
There’s definitely nuance and a spectrum to how much AI is used and how it is executed. I’m being prejudiced against prompted images and videos and songs specifically. Anything directly spit out by AI with a text string as input.
I have an open mind about things cobbled together by an artist blending traditional techniques with AI.