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author, The Social Photo (Verso) former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea los angeles
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AI cheating, AI "slop," this stuff proliferates anywhere social relations had already been highly instrumentalized. fuck AI but lets not retcon systems so anti-social that AI could be successful within them

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

New from me! For Dilettante Army (& visionary editor Sara Clugage) I wrote a deep/dark analysis of the foul and tacky "golden pager" trophy that Netanyahu gifted Trump back in Feb. This is about trees, circuits, jokes, images, explosions, kitsch, evil. dilettantearmy.com/articles/gol...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

interacting with an AI can only seem fulfilling because platforms trained these folks to treat other humans in such an instrumental way people are reduced to numbers when discourse is ranked with metrics and sorted through algorithms, so why not just speak to AI?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

robhorning.substack.com/p/just-for-a...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

every definition and description of "AI Slop" reads to me as what for-profit, highly metricized, and algorithmic platforms have always done. making it primarily an "AI" issue lets the platforms and this general logic too much off the hook imo

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

"When communication is filtered through algorithms, it becomes as if spoken by algorithms" algorithms dont sort content, metrics dont measure it, both precede and *produce* content. and preclude sociality.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

i disagree with the "AI is useless" critique for a different reason: valuing things only bc theyre useful is a dead end. uselessness rules

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

hard to think of two people i’ve known that i respect more. last night was fun seeing Malcolm Harris and @mattdpearce.com talks about Mal’s new book What’s Left! which everyone should buy rn

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

I miss how we used to be able to talk about anything other than the horror of the hour on the internet

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

i really appreciate Drew here using non-AI examples to talk about "slop"

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

yes and especially this one

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

im being gaslit lol

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

one way to understand this Silicon Valley administration is they abide by the Tech coders dream of speaking anything into existence. anything said on any platform can be de-anchored from the practical, rational, even legal and be made to happen. the metaverse didnt fail but became everything

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

focuses on how memes are used and not what politically and materially is being done. exactly the wrong approach imo

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

"Seeking attention for profit is perhaps incompatible with tolerance" robhorning.substack.com/p/watch-out-...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I blame Ted talks for all of this

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk... loving this by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

its no coincidence that generative AI is such a perfect fit for fascist futurism. re: futurism, AI is iconic. it can stand for "wealth-ness" and "future-ness" in a way real video can not re: fascism, AI is an assertion of the statistically standard, normal, hegemonic, and inevitable

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments