It's not just slop, it's not stolen, it's not bad for the environment, and we should want art to be easy to make
AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.
Why You Should Stop Using AI Art Generators
Creating art by just telling an AI what to do is a compelling idea. However, there are lots of reasons why we should stop using AI art generators.
An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers
A technologist proposes slapping a "slop tax" on companies that use or create generative AI content.
The Power of Art in the AI Age
On 21st-Century Painting and the Backlash Against the Thinking Machines
Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it
I love AI, but it still can't design for shit
Without a critical human eye, AI produces slop. The quality bar is yours to maintain.
Is AI ruining… fashion?
There are compelling reasons to believe that slop is no longer just limited to the internet. From AI design tools to trend scraping and fast fashion… This video makes a compelling argument that AI plays a role in why so few fashion brands have unique identities anymore. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaxXspZQYkc]
Beyond Slop
Visions for humane creative AI tools based on craft, process, and emergence.
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop
AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet
Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.
AI is ushering in an age of personal media
It may be AI slop, but it's my AI slop.
Can AI slop help us save the internet?
Disrupting the status quo and opening space for new visions
choosing friction
In 2018, legal scholar Tim Wu wrote in the New York Times that: Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. This piece well predates the current AI boom, but “all destination and no journey” is a pretty good explanation for why using AI to create art is mainly compelling to people who think about creativity in terms of producing content and generating intellectual property. They just want the thing they can market and sell for money or clout; they don’t care how they got there. I know you’re sick of talking about AI. I am too. This is only a little bit about AI, I promise. Like all my writing about technology, it’s mostly about people.
Experts Warn That AI Slop Is Corrupting Kids’ Brains
A new analysis argues that AI fruit reels depicting violent acts reinforce dangerous extremism among young viewers.
There is starting to be some genuinely interesting AI-created film stuff (among a flood of slop), and I suspect this will only accelerate. The “is it art?” debate will grow Benjamin’s 1935 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” already argued it’s likely the wrong question.
