Photo: dishgen, food.recipes.daily, Mia Mercado, vegan_veganlife; Videos: amberrecipes, protein_cottage_kitchen |
Just thinking about AI puts a bad taste in my mouth. At its most insidious, it’s polluting water, proliferating misinformation, consuming jobs, and capitalizing on the fractures in broken systems. At its most irritating, AI is taking all the fun out of our hobbies and drowning our social-media feeds with AI-generated content that’s getting harder and harder to spot. These low-quality, high-volume AI-generated posts, better known as AI slop, are mostly just absurd, like something out of a dystopian America’s Funniest Home Videos — a lion and dog flipping the bird, an alligator returning a human baby — but sometimes they make it into our real offline lives in truly stupid ways. Like, say, a cottage-cheese cheesecake recipe video that, when attempted in an IRL kitchen, results in an inedible, half-baked gloop. Literal AI slop.
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