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[–] sus 78 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

See, that's an actual thought provoking piece on the nature of human perception so you can argue it's an actual work of art.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve commented about this before, but I do actually miss those first few generations of image generators. The first DeepDream style stuff was interesting but didn’t go very far, but this image in particular is a milestone for what came directly after.

I would love to run VQGAN+CLIP locally, for example, in some efficient way. It was fun to play with and to see how the model interpreted the input. And it wasn’t as scary as the tools we have now (especially when those are paired with the deep fake face swap stuff, for example)

I genuinely think slop is the perfect word for the current iteration of these image generators, both the image outputs themselves and the role they’re playing in the already-bleak digital media landscape.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This is the first time I realize that this famous image was not "designed" to simulate what a stroke feels like visually, it was just serendipity. They were probably just really trying to generate an image of a living room, but the AI image generators were still in its infancy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shlitzburg. That wasn't hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is only the first round.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (2 children)

https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/

Watching in real time as “slop” becomes a term of art. the way that “spam” became the term for unwanted emails, “slop” is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

TIL

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (5 children)

But there is no "spam-core" aesthetic

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure there is, it's the weirdos who print out emails (or print literally everything).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

This is most likely an error in space-time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I beg to differ

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5c6c6a87-a5b9-4005-9d5c-bf9ed7cf25ef.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well, there is James Veitch and similar comedians turning spam into part of their art.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

extended warranties have become a meme, and probably are an aesthetic

[–] RandomVideos 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt "slop" used before AI to describe something bad and masse produced on the internet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Not even the internet specifically, but often media in general. It comes from the use of "slop" as the mix of garbage that you pour into a feeding trough for pigs. Basically junk that companies think people will gobble up regardless of the quality.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will mock AI "art" until my dying breath.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

As we all should.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Right next to AI hieroglyphs aesthetic

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is slop? All I'm getting from a lazy google is references to animal feed and liquids.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just a general word for mediocre images that are taking up space over better stuff. Like AI images being the first result for 'frog' or something would be considered AI slop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks!

Me being drunk and Jerboa not allowing me to keep the op and my question in sight while responding limit my ability to ask my next question. I have deleted and tried typing that question too many times.

Thanks anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought slop was what you feed pigs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It is! According to search engines I typed "Slop" into. Amazing that slop makes bacon. I love slop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Bit of a harsh word to call people who unironically like AI art

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Interview: Why did you give them 7 fingers on one hand and 4.5 fingers on the other?

Artist: It's Slopcore, you wouldn't understand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I hate this because I know it is true

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

One of my favorite obsolete usages is slop for a jacket or outerwear, derived from middle English but kept alive in the nautical vernacular for some time after.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If you've not seen the new Dandy Warhol's video it's incredible.