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 (DIR) Post #B5HZ9EOBg0buimCs2C by bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
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       Immediately after the landing of Artemis 2, AI-generated images of the recovery spread online. We have seen this before, with the kidnapping of Maduro or the mass protests against ICE raids – fake images of real events. While these synthetic images fictionalize reality, they are not necessarily meant as disinformation. Rather, they both illustrate and cater to widespread expectations. In our hypervisualized world of ubiquitous networked cameras, we expect to see perfect images of whatever is happening immediately. #AIslop delivers. 1/3
       
 (DIR) Post #B5HZ9FSThXdY2NDoMS by bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
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       Compared to the actual footage, which in this case, NASA shared on a Flickr account, the AI versions are often more dramatic, cinematic, and optimized for social media clickbait. Perhaps we will become accustomed to these types of images and recognize them for what they are: generic, more or less realistic visualizations of headlines and trending topics, not unlike earlier forms of imagery. 2/3
       
 (DIR) Post #B5HZ9Fvtw9AlVczJDs by bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
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       No one would, for example, mistake Gericault’s «Raft of the Medusa» for a document of the actual events it was based on. These AI-generated images actually have more in common with history paintings or movie productions than with documentary photography. Unlike paintings or movies, however, they are created instantly, spread immediately, and compete with real news photos for our attention on the same channels and platforms.3/3
       
 (DIR) Post #B6MImZjHaSyCZRZ1BQ by bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
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       Some theses on #Slop (a thread):Slop is automated ideology. It's content made of content, optimized for circulation, prompted, shaped, and refined through feedback loops of adaptation to platform conditions. Slop is what you get when the conditions of content distribution — the recommendation algorithms, reaction economies, and monetization schemes of social media — feed directly, continuously and automatically back into content production1/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6MImahBzitNZFarZ2 by bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
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       Understood as ideology, slop is largely devoid of specific content; or rather, its main message lies in its platformized formats, which can be filled by mostly arbitrary and exchangeable content. The aim of slop is less to indoctrinate than to naturalize a world fully mediated and governed by digital platforms, a world that knows no outside of the endless feedback loops of platform capitalism2/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6MImb7mOs9wti260O by bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
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       To call #Slop automated is not to say it is free of human labor — rather, this human labor is already embedded in automated chains of operations, not only made machine-like and subsumed under the logic of algorithmic curation, but made machine-readable, dissolved into patterns and quantifiable reactions3/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6MImba8hQqQJfIkD2 by bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
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       #Slop is the naturalization of a world built from the large-scale extraction, circulation, and endless recycling of dead human labor as platformized, formatted content. It is the automated ideology of platform capitalism.4/