I am going to sort of lay into you here, not because I want to be a jerk, but because I think it’s important to post on public forums in advocacy of important steps in reasoning that I want to see society take.
You see, every time someone calls something “ai slop”, and it isn’t, it’s a lot worse than just being wrong in one instance. It actually creates a compelling piece of evidence for exactly the opposite of the point you want to make. It’s a particularly damaging form of wrongness.
You want to claim that what AI produces is intrinsically flawed, lesser than human works, and always bears the mark of its inferiority. You want to claim that human artwork is beautiful, superior, and always bears a mark of it. Roughly something like “the worst human artwork is better than the best AI slop”.
But because you identified this human artwork (not just a random photograph even, but a still from a carefully directed successful TV show!) as “slop”, you must now either admit to one of these things:
Some human artwork is as bad as AI imagery, which is equivalent to saying that some AI imagery is as good as human artwork.
Or
Some people cannot distinguish between human and AI imagery
I think, in light of this, it’s time to move on from your current position, and instead take up a more nuanced one. Maybe consider that the problems with AI imagery are not about visual coherence, the presence of “soul” being put into it, or anything like that. You can still maintain the core view that AI imagery is bad, but you should come at it from a stronger argument, like the environmental impact, copyright violations, or something like that. This visual acuity argument is going the way of the dodo, and fast - as you and everyone else misclassifying real images as “slop” unintentionally demonstrate.
Yep that’s some AI slop
I am going to sort of lay into you here, not because I want to be a jerk, but because I think it’s important to post on public forums in advocacy of important steps in reasoning that I want to see society take.
You see, every time someone calls something “ai slop”, and it isn’t, it’s a lot worse than just being wrong in one instance. It actually creates a compelling piece of evidence for exactly the opposite of the point you want to make. It’s a particularly damaging form of wrongness.
You want to claim that what AI produces is intrinsically flawed, lesser than human works, and always bears the mark of its inferiority. You want to claim that human artwork is beautiful, superior, and always bears a mark of it. Roughly something like “the worst human artwork is better than the best AI slop”.
But because you identified this human artwork (not just a random photograph even, but a still from a carefully directed successful TV show!) as “slop”, you must now either admit to one of these things:
Or
I think, in light of this, it’s time to move on from your current position, and instead take up a more nuanced one. Maybe consider that the problems with AI imagery are not about visual coherence, the presence of “soul” being put into it, or anything like that. You can still maintain the core view that AI imagery is bad, but you should come at it from a stronger argument, like the environmental impact, copyright violations, or something like that. This visual acuity argument is going the way of the dodo, and fast - as you and everyone else misclassifying real images as “slop” unintentionally demonstrate.
1 : assimilate all humans
Confidently incorrect.
It’s a scene from The Queens Gambit. I think Anya Taylor-Joy just does weird things with her limbs sometimes
It’s a screenshot from The Queen’s Gambit, not AI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen's_Gambit_(miniseries)