Tressie McMillan Cottom

I think the technology could improve and it could be harder to discern, and we would still be left emotionally cold when we engage with it.

Yeah.

The aesthetics, I think if we over rely on aesthetics to tell us when AI has created an image or a video, then we have already fallen for the trick of AI, which is to think that we individually alone can discern when it is enacted and when it isn't.

I'm struck by how much of A.I.

slop is just sort of nihilistic in its position on society, that there's no choice about any of it.

There's no political statement, there's no cultural statement, there's no artistic statement, except I made you respond.

I captured your energy for about eight seconds.

Eight seconds it took you to hit repost.

And so I think the aesthetics will get better, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to have an aesthetic position.

But it does get scarier about how much better aesthetics will make it easier for us to be fooled by AI.

Yeah.

I mean, I like to think that we are entertaining the return to material craft and all that, but we've had eras where we said that before.

And it's not that it isn't true that there isn't some trend and groups don't start and people go through cycles of making zines, for instance, or whatever.

It's not that those things aren't true.

I'm just not sure that they are true enough.

to say that it is an antidote to whatever it is about AI slop that scares us, because that's fundamentally what we're talking about.

There's just some great unknown there.

It scares us.

It's a little intimidating.

And I'm not sure that getting back to crafting culture, as much as I love it, I've been working on a zine with my stepdaughter, right?