Dismiss AI slop at your peril

Where does AI actually make sense?

Christopher Nolan planted (and later sold) a real 500-acre cornfield for Interstellar to film more authentic scenes. He could have done it another way, but chose not to.I’ve been critical of AI used for slop and of how it risks making people fatted and lazy. That said, I’m not a luddite and like technology used thoughtfully, by people who consider tradeoffs, craft, and are relentlessly passionate about the end product being uniquely theirs. Anyw…

Dismiss AI slop at your peril

Let’s talk about slop – the deep-faking, engagement-baiting, time-sapping, work-spoiling AI content that’s rotting our brains, destroying democracy and ripping at the fabric of reality. Or so the story goes.As 2025 draws to a close, it feels like we’re drowning in AI-generated content. But we’re also drowning in hot takes complaining about slop. Nick Cave […]