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ai generated appears in 7 chunks across 7 episodes, from 2024-05-13 to 2026-04-20.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/13/24 (2024-05-13), with 1 observation on this topic.
Semantically it travels with extremely expensive, Simon Willison, and Twitter, while by chunk count it sits between add feature and bespoke software; its yearly rank moved from #168 in 2024 to #133 in 2026.
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Range2024-05-13 to 2026-04-20Mean1.0 per episodePeak1 on 2024-05-13
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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 ...
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
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