OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.
Sorry to @doomquasar.bsky.social who will be forced to play this with me while I squeal like a pig
Happy to send a few bucks to the greatest country on Earth. I'd send them more if I could, actually. It's a good cause.
Easily one of the root causes of all the dumb shit we're dealing with is how guys like this lie, just straight-up make up the dumbest most "everyone is 12" brained bullshit they can possibly imagine, and everyone reporting on it just runs with that as their headline uncritically
This is a sign of fear, knowing slop is a real issue and forced to make it sound like they don’t make slop when they’re in the business of providing slop making technology. Keep calling it slop keep calling out slop when you see it and keep coming up with catchy words like DLSSlop.
*taps the "profit losses are the fault of executive leadership, who are conveniently never affected by profit loss" sign*
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop
Just biked across Brooklyn for an appointment that’s next week thanks to an AI receptionist hallucinating what “this Tuesday” means
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Foucault's Pudendum
My dumbest conspiracy theory is that this used to work until the microfiber cloth industry developed some kind of technology that turns t-shirt wipes into oil smears
