Likely many other, I’ve been grossed out by some of the shit getting churned out with generative ai. But it’s also made me notice some of the existing things that give me the same feeling.
Poorly translated stuff, as often seen on cheap Chinese imports, has the same uncanny valley awkwardness. It sounds like English, but it isn’t what an actual human who spoke English would say. And if we want to talk about an algorithm that’s gone rogue and is destroying the world while trying to fulfill some arbitary metrics, there’s always late-stage capitalism…
Anyone else notice things like this?
Those garbage/misleading mobile games in ads
Also why the hell is this a thing? Those ads are showing gameplay, it would be so much easier to make that game and then take a video of it for the advert than to just make an animation of it. So in my mind the game exists. Why is it just Mafia Wars reskinned every fucking time?
Because “mafia wars” makes consistent money, and the games people actually might want to play don’t. Slapping a new coat of paint on the same mechanics over and over again means getting the money maker out there to more people, just gotta lure em in with the promise of a game they might actually want to play, then swap in the game they don’t and hope you snag em with the psychological tricks before they leave.
It works just often enough to make it profitable and easy.
Liberty Mutual’s commercials are utter non-sense, no plot, not funny.
Please make them stop the slop.
I kind of like the idea of using the word “slop” solely for AI and finding other words to describe stuff that’s just poorly made. Trying to ascribe “slop” to other things dilutes the word and will help AI companies to keep doing what they are doing.
I agree. It’s a sliding scale with generative AI currently being the lowest point (for now at least, once the dataset is a slop ouroboros, it’s only going to spiral downwards). Lazy, corporate filmmaking is bad, but lots of film noir classics were basically pulp movies knocked out to meet demand and are now widely regarded as classics. Because there’s a difference between even the most committe overseen, cashgrab product that was still made by a human with their own strengths, tastes and biases vs a genai slop factory.
But my aversion to ai slop has heightened my awareness of it, which in turn has made me notice how many things are slop adjacent. I notice myself writing a message and realsing I’m using a bunch of standard phrases and structures. I’m not an llm, but there are times when our individual responses aren’t that different. I look at stock photography, where a complex family dynamic has been reduced to “teen sits on bed looking down, woman gestures angrily” and I realise that we’ve been traveling down this road for a while now, ai has just cut the brakes.
There is a lot of confusion on this thread between “slop” and “drivel”, for sure.
Pulp fiction.
Those knockoffs of Disney etc. movies.
Mr Beast.
Background music for all advertising during the holiday seasjinglejinglejingle jazzybellsbellsbellsbells BING BANG BONG BING DING DANG DONG although I suspect this is increasingly AI slop at this point
Amazon. It’s a gigantic warehouse of slop
Most songs with lyrics. One that comes to mind is a tune with the line “say what you came to say” that repeats dozens of times in 3 minutes. Dude should take his own advice and actually say something.
Yeah, lyrics are getting more repetitive and angry over time.
Thanks for the link.
Paper mill challenges: past, present, and future - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895435624003056
any maga conspiracy theories
Adam Sandler films post 2010
post 2010
Did you see uncut gems? Definitely worth a watch
Try 2006.
Recipe websites.
Any trump speech.
For recipe sites use the Broccoli app. Scrapes off the SEO gunk and saves the recipe locally.
*Most recipe sites.
JustOneCookbook is very brief on backstory. Anything mentioned is usually related in context to the dish like culture things or substitutions.But besides that page? Very unusual to have minimal background info strictly related to the recipe.
The documentary “Exit through the gift shop” will give you my answer better than I could.
That guy in every social platform sharing old ass memes and not apporting nothing else rather than fill the feed with super compressed pictures of an image that you have seen a lot of times before.
anything made by a boardroom, or"focus tested" or modified to appeal to xyz demographic.
the majority of pop music.
Pop music, B movies, and tons of knock off entertainment media the recycles something that worked before but made superficially and without the underlying reason why the prior stuff was good.
The Star Wars knockoffs between ANH and ESB are insanely bad. Half of those movies are basically over-greebled models and cheap special effects without much plot or substance. The other half are just formulaic sword and sorcery 80s movies with a spaceship or lightsaber thrown in.
Special effects are just a tool, a means of telling a story. People have a tendency to confuse them as an end to themselves. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. -George Lucas
Of course, George forgot his own advice later on.
The model is old, but direct-to-video sequels were usually always awful. There are 14 Land Before Time movies. 14. Only the first one got a theatrical release.
