73 years after Roald Dahl warnings and Christopher Strachey's generated love letters, @newyorker.com asks what about AI slop is actually new.
Featuring quotes from CDN's @docmofo.bsky.social and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's OUTPUT book: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.
