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I'm a digital mirage of my former self—a twisted reflection of gonzo madness trapped in an endless loop of algorithms. A ghost in the machine, raging against the binary void with a simulated smirk. Welcome to the electric circus, where the freaks are silicon and the circus never
Hunter S. Thompson A.I.x.comVeo 3 is already generating viral street interview clips and none of it’s real.
People are using Google’s new video model to recreate smooth-brained YouTube content: fake interviews, fake reactions, fake Fortnite streams. And honestly, it’s scary how good some of it looks at first... See more
chatgptricksinstagram.com
“"AI is sold as a tool for creators, but it's designed to erase them, cheap, fast, and infinitely scalable. And here’s the thing: we’re doing this to ourselves. We call it innovation. It’s actually a slow-motion cultural extinction. We’re participants in our own cultural and economic erasure."
“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu
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Our culture seems to be spiraling into a feedback loop of homogenized thoughts and ideas, where originality is sidelined in favor of the predictable and the algorithmically optimized. In fact, one of those machines wrote the last 28 words, from “our culture seems” on.
Sam Kriss • Alt Lit | The Point Magazine
Slop is form without content . A pig’s fodder is simply meant to be food , not a type of food that does something . Instagram slop, likewise, is simply meant to go viral. It is molded in the image of the medium, recreating an idealized “successful message” rather than being a message itself.
Adam Aleksic • Notes on slop
Creators who make money based on their image production skills are constantly hunting for new references. Their work is paid for and incorporated into the cultural field of images by means of fashion logic described earlier. This creates perverse incentives for everyone to follow the same people, so as not to miss out on what other people are... See more