This perspective is so helpful to me in understanding why people use GenAI from a social/structural view, and not just the reductionist answer that people are lazy and/or dumb. Fire post as always 🔥🔥🔥
This is so insightful. It does seem like people crave something better than AI just like people want something better than McDonalds but they feel overtaxed and are constantly doing the easiest thing to get by. Thanks for the inspiration to keep trying to make something better where I can.
Slop is like crack for the middle - upper class. Before the opioid epidemic, it was enough for oligarchs to be hands off, siphoning wealth away from the citizenry and letting them flail around in poverty. A passive approach. But now markets of despair -drugs, gambling etc - fill a void where community would at least stopgap the rot. These cause a rot on a personal level that compounds the destruction of the public sphere.
The upper and upper middle were culturally sheltered from the worst of these “markets of despair”, but now slop is an equal opportunity vice (the word vice doesn’t quite capture the spirit of slop, as it is actively gulleted down our throats, there is no element of choice). It is a cognitohazard that will rip through the upper and middle like crack and opioid did through the lumpen. Mass psychosis, isolation, schizophrenic contextless existence. Dementia simulator. And worst of all it will be heralded in and praised, socially acceptable. At least for now.
This perspective is so helpful to me in understanding why people use GenAI from a social/structural view, and not just the reductionist answer that people are lazy and/or dumb. Fire post as always 🔥🔥🔥
This is so insightful. It does seem like people crave something better than AI just like people want something better than McDonalds but they feel overtaxed and are constantly doing the easiest thing to get by. Thanks for the inspiration to keep trying to make something better where I can.
Beautiful article. Like people younger than me would say, “never doom”!
Slop is like crack for the middle - upper class. Before the opioid epidemic, it was enough for oligarchs to be hands off, siphoning wealth away from the citizenry and letting them flail around in poverty. A passive approach. But now markets of despair -drugs, gambling etc - fill a void where community would at least stopgap the rot. These cause a rot on a personal level that compounds the destruction of the public sphere.
The upper and upper middle were culturally sheltered from the worst of these “markets of despair”, but now slop is an equal opportunity vice (the word vice doesn’t quite capture the spirit of slop, as it is actively gulleted down our throats, there is no element of choice). It is a cognitohazard that will rip through the upper and middle like crack and opioid did through the lumpen. Mass psychosis, isolation, schizophrenic contextless existence. Dementia simulator. And worst of all it will be heralded in and praised, socially acceptable. At least for now.
twin I can't tell if u tweakin or spittin 🔥
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Another banger article. Again I’ll be sending this to everyone I know as an articulate and insightful piece describing the structural function of AI