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A defense of AI art
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.

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]


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.

Adrian Z. · Human Interface Designer
Designer working at the intersection of art, design, and AI.

AI Artists Have No Role Models
Prompt Engineers Lack Any Canon, Don't You? AI artists have an existential problem: they consume only their own work, severing the dialogue of culture that…

AI-synthesized faces are indistinguishable from real faces and more trustworthy
Artificial intelligence (AI)–synthesized text, audio, image, and video are being weaponized for the purposes of nonconsensual intimate imagery, financial fraud, and disinformation campaigns. Our evaluation of the photorealism of AI-synthesized faces indicates that synthesis engines have passed through the uncanny valley and are capable of creating faces that are indistinguishable—and more trustworthy—than real faces.

AI-synthesized faces are indistinguishable from real faces and more trustworthy
Artificial intelligence (AI)–synthesized text, audio, image, and video are being weaponized for the purposes of nonconsensual intimate imagery, financial fraud, and disinformation campaigns. Our evaluation of the photorealism of AI-synthesized faces indicates that synthesis engines have passed through the uncanny valley and are capable of creating faces that are indistinguishable—and more trustworthy—than real faces.

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing
People can tell AI to pay up to use their likenesses.

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.

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.
DON'T SHARE THIS, IT'S AI FABRICATED It's fake - the media outlet almost certainly used generative AI to write this and it pulled from a "parody" acct (instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/) The more you share this, the more you help the pro-AI bros say this is all fake youtube.com/live/ho_ZmwgvDdM

TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface

Unpacking the Racism of Digital Blackface in the Information Age
Hey everyone! After some discussion internally, we’ve decided to launch a new moderation label for “Digital Blackface”. This makes Digital…

Exposing The Hungry Historian (aka Potlikker's) A.I. Slop

The Hungry Historian (Potlikker_Offical): Digital Blackface, AI Slop, and Soul Food Deception — soulfoodetc
Digital blackface