As 'solutions' go, there's a need for some hardcore accountability. The sort that addicts are faced with in any program designed to get them 'off' of their substance of choice. People are willing to complain about all this, highlighting in detail what's 'wrong,' then turn right around and click back into the slop. I'm unsure how that cycle will eventually break, but posts like yours, Stephen, are a start. Keep the inquiry humming!
My husband and I have been watching videos on YouTube on New Zealand I was previously blissfully unaware of how many horrible completely AI-generated travel videos there are. Like…”photos” of a Time Square-esque city block in a video about Wellington. What is the goal here? I don’t understand. Slop for slop’s sake.
I hope people will grow tired of the slop sooner rather than later, but I wonder what will become of the internet if and when most everyone does. I wrote a post titled "Anything (A)I Can Do, You Can Do Better" which is also on the topic of AI slop and just how uninteresting it is, and how we would end up with no taste if we only consumed the "perfect content" tailor made for us every time, and we'd grow no backbone or character if we never had to lift a finger. Everything we could dream of just a prompt away. Let this go on for long enough and I think we'd lose our culture and sense of humanity and community, and without that we're on the path to devolving back into animals. Although the AI bros will have you think we're evolving into some next stage of cyborg singularity nonsense.
The silver lining here is that AI models cannot be trained or improved by their own output/slop. We have to create real culture in order to better the models.
"Generative AI allows almost anyone to generate almost anything. Some argue this is a noble concept, but the output lacks the very fundamentals that make art, writing, music and all the other crafts worth consuming. Without the creativity of humans, the nuances of tastes and opinions, variation in style and techniques, flaws and imperfections, the craft and experiences to shape things from, the majority of this output is soulless"
do you mean to say generated content is not capable of expressing the creative nuance and style of humans? a superficially false claim there.
I'd push back a little on the idea that most music/art/etc is slop. Certainly the biggest pop is but I think there are a lot of folks making absolutely beautiful art. I think if anything, they should be applauded for continuing to persist in the face of the slop wave haha. Regardless, yeah, the slop is back and living feels a lot like drowning right now.
…at some point we will have to talk about how search will be effected on all platforms…if we don’t get an a.i. off button than the inevitable 90/10 split of ai to human content will make it impossible to ever find anything that isn’t ai…not only do we not need these things they are “manspreading” all over this bus…
I did have an exchange recently with someone on here about streaming services introducing ads. They were defending it on the basis that the services were entitled to recoup money to pay for the licencing of the media they provided. Fair enough, but it does feel like a bait and switch. To them, we're all just frogs sitting in cold pans of water, too lazy or invested to jump out.
As 'solutions' go, there's a need for some hardcore accountability. The sort that addicts are faced with in any program designed to get them 'off' of their substance of choice. People are willing to complain about all this, highlighting in detail what's 'wrong,' then turn right around and click back into the slop. I'm unsure how that cycle will eventually break, but posts like yours, Stephen, are a start. Keep the inquiry humming!
My husband and I have been watching videos on YouTube on New Zealand I was previously blissfully unaware of how many horrible completely AI-generated travel videos there are. Like…”photos” of a Time Square-esque city block in a video about Wellington. What is the goal here? I don’t understand. Slop for slop’s sake.
I hope people will grow tired of the slop sooner rather than later, but I wonder what will become of the internet if and when most everyone does. I wrote a post titled "Anything (A)I Can Do, You Can Do Better" which is also on the topic of AI slop and just how uninteresting it is, and how we would end up with no taste if we only consumed the "perfect content" tailor made for us every time, and we'd grow no backbone or character if we never had to lift a finger. Everything we could dream of just a prompt away. Let this go on for long enough and I think we'd lose our culture and sense of humanity and community, and without that we're on the path to devolving back into animals. Although the AI bros will have you think we're evolving into some next stage of cyborg singularity nonsense.
The silver lining here is that AI models cannot be trained or improved by their own output/slop. We have to create real culture in order to better the models.
"Generative AI allows almost anyone to generate almost anything. Some argue this is a noble concept, but the output lacks the very fundamentals that make art, writing, music and all the other crafts worth consuming. Without the creativity of humans, the nuances of tastes and opinions, variation in style and techniques, flaws and imperfections, the craft and experiences to shape things from, the majority of this output is soulless"
do you mean to say generated content is not capable of expressing the creative nuance and style of humans? a superficially false claim there.
I'd push back a little on the idea that most music/art/etc is slop. Certainly the biggest pop is but I think there are a lot of folks making absolutely beautiful art. I think if anything, they should be applauded for continuing to persist in the face of the slop wave haha. Regardless, yeah, the slop is back and living feels a lot like drowning right now.
…at some point we will have to talk about how search will be effected on all platforms…if we don’t get an a.i. off button than the inevitable 90/10 split of ai to human content will make it impossible to ever find anything that isn’t ai…not only do we not need these things they are “manspreading” all over this bus…
YES! Get onto the web and into the world to discover to people doing interesting things. There’s no reason to eat slop. 🫡
I did have an exchange recently with someone on here about streaming services introducing ads. They were defending it on the basis that the services were entitled to recoup money to pay for the licencing of the media they provided. Fair enough, but it does feel like a bait and switch. To them, we're all just frogs sitting in cold pans of water, too lazy or invested to jump out.