From images of food to recipes, honestly mostly in the AI slop category
Ugly AI Food Photos Are Only the Beginning
Restaurant menus with AI-generated food images are going viral for their off-putting aesthetic. But AI’s impact on modern menus runs even deeper.
For AI Food Slop, Gross Is in the Eye of the Beholder
AI food imagery would still be a problem even if it didn't look horrifying.
AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition
An information scientist explains that while Google’s AI Overviews and other AI search tools may look enticing, you shouldn’t rely on them to fill all your search needs.
AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition
An information scientist explains that while Google’s AI Overviews and other AI search tools may look enticing, you shouldn’t rely on them to fill all your search needs.
Food delivery app tries AI menu images, diners flag photo of meat and eggs floating in cola
An effort by Just Eat to make sparse restaurant menus look more complete with artificial intelligence-made food pictures instead became an online punchline.
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.
Our minds did not evolve for AI
AI is mental junk food: tasty and tempting, but ultimately unhealthy — a cognitive hot dog
Restaurants face backlash over AI-generated food photos
AI is turning restaurant menus into nightmare fuel.
Why I Won't Eat At Restaurants That Use AI Images - Daily Meal
The proliferation of artificially generated images has been rapid, to say the least. It's even spread to restaurants. Here's why I think it's a bad sign.
AI is ushering in an age of personal media
It may be AI slop, but it's my AI slop.
The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Specific AI* products
Critiques/discussions about specific AI products that don’t really belong in my other collections * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
On slop
Interesting content about the AI slop phenomena
the majority of regular bsky users don’t like ai. A large part of the atproto power users are also ai power users. Attie’s features feel…
thoughts on attie - half baked
Tommi Pedruzzi on Twitter / X
Lincoln Michel on Twitter / X
No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?
Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra
@mosermostly.bsky.social had what is likely the correct read: that they will use this to train a bot to seem less botlike
davidad 🎇 on Twitter / X
