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If you showed a Google search engineer from 15 years ago today's results page they'd faint. Not only do many queries have AI-generated results. But also, every result above the fold is an ad, styled to be indistinguishable from the organic results. This is what you get from rolling down a gradient.
What feels hollow about slop is not that it was AI generated but that it has no POV. An artist with a POV using an AI generation tool could make something meaningful. The thing that makes you feel like a chump ...
The future of music is not "Spotify, but AI generated." It's participatory creation. That's a very different kind of thing. LLMs drop the cost of creation, allowing more participation than ever before. B...
Slop is the perfect word for AI-generated content. Slop: like the nutrition fed to a pig. Sloppy: Like careless.
A frame for a class of AI-generated content: para-content. Original thought or reporting is expensive. Contextualization is easy content to produce. Humans like narratives, so a lot of contextualization will be narratives applied to situations. A whole bunch of shallow analysis, very little novel re
I found this video on YouTube that is AI-generated… and also distinctly non-slop. It shows the entire evolution of chickens, morphing between the various ancestors. This is the kind of thing that would have been extremely expensive to animate in traditional ways. But AI can do it easily, and seeing
A haunting signpost: an AI-generated short film reflecting on the inner lives of AI actors. Like a Black Mirror episode!
It's possible to get good AI-generated little micro-apps, with some effort. Normally a few iterations are required to find something good. After some effort you've discovered a useful point in the latent space. Ideally as the swarm of the ecosystem explores, they can automatically share save points:
A term I love for unwanted AI-generated content: slop. The term has an adjacency to spam, while being distinct from it. The connotations are pitch perfect: mass produced technically edible junk fit for animals, not humans. The term got to be much more well known this week, and I had a front row seat