Tressie McMillan Cottom

I absolutely would call that art.

I do question, however, the difference between experts and

using it or artists, I should even just say, using the tool to bring to life the conversation they want to have with the culture and an AI prompt that someone comes up with off the cuff to send each other, you know, a funny video of them dancing in a Santa costume.

I don't think that there are that many incentives for us to make that distinction online is part of the problem.

And I'm not sure that we have the shared sensibilities to care that there's just so much more of the AI slop than there is the sort of, you know, artistic interpretation of AI.

You want that.

You would enjoy that, no?

Well, cats...

Cats are the reason for the Internet, arguably.

I get that.

I hear that, but that is not actually why we have so much AI slop.

It isn't that there are billions of people programming and going and putting in one prompt at a time.

It is that you can create an AI that will create a prompt based on generative AI texts.

The steps of human removal from the process isn't just human to prompt, right?

And if it was, then maybe, I don't know, yeah, maybe we'd just be talking about the new era of pop art.

It is that there is a point at which the human can absolutely be removed from the loop entirely.

And I think that that is one why it is so valuable to social media platforms who have figured out an equation where it is just about generating something new for people to respond to, whether they are actually having a strong emotional response or not.

That's what, you know,

that it'll just keep people sort of engaged and doom scrolling, and it needs to be cheap enough to do that.

So I think one of the reasons, again, we feel so cold is that a lot of this actually isn't a human being sitting down and writing a prompt, right?