Post by @AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space

2026-08-31 10:13 UTC

So what does that mean for AI art in general? Well, you probably already noticed that most #AI art looks like AI art slop. Why? Because it was specifically trained by asking people what they liked more. So, the #AIArt style is a distillation of the median taste of the demographics of the sorts of people that use AI Art generators. (Though, I'm pretty sure the yellow comes from being trained on a lot of movie data.) But, you probably also know it doesn't have to look like that. 2/

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@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space 2026-08-31 10:21

In fact, it has become harder and hard to tell if _some_ things are generated by #AI. Yet these things all share some pretty common qualities: they are highly derivative. So if it looks like a stock photo, psychedelic nonsense, a low effort infographic, or generic fantasy... well, you're probably going to get a pretty decent looking piece. What all of the above have in common is that they are human #slop. Yes. Human slop. Content mills, most commercial art, shit sold to stoners and metalhead on T-Shirts. It's all art that was produced and optimized for #Capitalism (the first and most powerful #AI). What makes something slop is that is is vacuous and derivative. It lacks any kind of genuine creativity. So, by itself an AI can at best make slop. And, I really don't feel at all bad about human slop artists being automated away. Much as I don't really feel bad about portrait artists being replaced by cameras. We do have to ask how #Goya earns enough of a living to paint Jupiter without portraits, but this is not a new problem. 3/

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