After the slop avalanche

All this AI slop will yield many new degrees of socio-cultural freedom.

A freedom from our digital footprint for starters. No more sleepless nights over old party pictures, cringe videos, sextapes, or second-hand security footage of a guy not hanging himself in his solitary confinement cell. Everything seen on a screen will be presumed slop because of slop’s ubiquity.

Abundance drowns the digital footprint.

Another freedom is from both actual and metaphorical paparazzi. Since the consumer can’t know whether Zoe Kravitz and Harry Styles are actually currently touring Europe, why not make the whole thing up while they lay low on a boat somewhere nowhere. Any assertion of truth will drown in a tsunami of slop swelling at the rate of power infrastructure buildout.

If every combination of pixels is trivial to conjure, then it all ends up being noise, fuzz, and fugazi heuristically.

We might want to afford the woke movement riding the deathrattle of journalism deep gratitude for the relentless ruthlessness with which they’ve already deployed every institution and authority in their reach to tar, flog, and feather every one and every thing. Can you imagine how bad this would get if people still believed what they see online? But no, a dozen years of high pitch screech noises by hysterics hallucinating heretics has inculcated deep mistrust in digitally mediated social signal in all but the most unreasonable.