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'AI slop' became a concept: a flood of low-effort, soulless content. But the internet has seen 'cheap production' panics before; every time creation got easier, someone declared an aesthetic collapse. Is the problem AI, or our habit of calling everything easy 'cheap'?
— video essay topic: 'The Idea of AI Slop Is Slop', Philosophical Salon
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