AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”
The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
Brands Adopt ‘No AI’ Disclaimers to Stand Out Amid the Slop
Marketers move to get ahead of growing consumer skepticism by labeling content that doesn’t use AI.
I pulled ~90,000 Reddit posts about what makes writing "sound like AI" to determine the biggest AI-slop giveaways (Part 2)
674 votes, 228 comments. The majority of people can instantly tell when writing is generated by AI. For those who don't intend to get into the weeds…
Hello Local Business, Your AI Ads Are Costing You Customers
'Even if this was a genre popularised by human artists, it would still look like shit'
AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture
Generative AI deserves scientific attention. But the rush to study it is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative.
Really, you made this without AI? Prove it
The quest to find the ‘Fair Trade’ logo for human-made content.
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative...
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative...
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI
Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.
The Thoughts The Civilized Keep
The hype around a new AI language generator reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking on AI today — and indeed on how we think about thinking itself.
AI is not superhuman
What metaphor should drive the field of AI research?
AI is Creating Peak Software, Media is the Best Analogy
Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.
AI*-powered misinfo/disinfo/malinfo
* 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
AI* and art/photography
* 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
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite image…
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
New Google Earth AI tool could fuel misinformation, experts say
Dave Jorgenson (@davejorgenson.bsky.social)
Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds
Every Day is April Fool’s Day Now
Meta AI Has Some Super Normal Ideas for Improving Your Band Photos
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AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright
Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AI
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
