aislop

This definition of #AISlop popped out of my head after a bit of un-entrainment (if you dig).

#AI

https://realityfragments.com/2026/02/01/a-definition-of-ai-slop/

I call it slop because
that's the same sound
that our horse's shit makes
when it hits the ground.

#Poetry #AISlop

Edited to poem format.

It looks like Piwigo has decided to gunk up their otherwise useful photo sharing software with AI: https://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=192388#p192388

I've been happy with Piwigo for many years but I don't want to end up stuck with a service that's throwing itself into the AI hole. Does anyone have recommendations for self-hosted photo sharing services that are similar to Piwigo? I want to be prepared to switch away from it if the need arises.

#AI #GenAI #AISlop #Piwigo #PhotoSharing #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

Shoutout to the human beings still manually making memes and not relying on some AI slop which is "an insult to Life itself"

I'd take a crude MSPaint drawing of a Taco over some Sam Altman enabling eye-slurry.

#TACO #Memes #AIslop

Google is innovating search in an amazing and yet predictable way — it’s removing the search results. There will only be the “AI Overview,” much loved by nobody.

You might think the point of search was to find a thing, then go to it. But then Google doesn’t make enough ad money. Trying to wheedle an answer out of a hallucinating robot might keep you on the page longer.

From https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/114122009704468173

Edit: Reading the Google blog post about this change more carefully (thanks @picklish ), it seems more of an experimental feature than a default. I think the worry that Google will eventually make "AI overview" the default is a real and valid one, but I don't it's the case right now. If it ever does happen we will need to stop using the word "Google" as a synonym for "search" and declare RIP Google, 1998 - 2025

#IR #InformationRetrieval #search #Google #RIPGoogle #AISlop

Do you hate #broligarchs?
#Billionaires? #AiSlop but still think there is merit in #AI?

Here is my proposal for a stand alone.
OFFGRID COMMUNITY AI SYSTEM.

That's right.Your very own co-op AI

The calculations are very much back of the envelope, first cut, but quite feasible.
A 32billion parameters, frontier level performance compatable open source #llm model. The power requirements is that of 3AC units including cooling. Serves 15-20 concurrent users. 40 households of 4 people each (taking into account actual AI model distributed use metrics and contention ratios)

40 households, subscribing at $30/month over 2 years + power (solar). Train with your own datasets.
Entire set up takes half a rack.

LETS GO!!!

#OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

Atlassian decided to vomit AI all over Jira so I decided to mop it up with uBlock Origin. So far so good. One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to get it out of the context menus (right-click menus).

I also noticed a new Copilot button in GitHub so I zapped that one too.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #Jira #Atlassian #NoAI #GitHub

"AI" is Google's "pivot to video" moment:

Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’

The now-ubiquitous AI-generated answers — and the way Google has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, according to Bloomberg interviews with 25 publishers and people who work with them.

From https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/google-ai-search-shift-leaves-website-makers-feeling-betrayed

Remember when Facebook told everyone they should change all their content to video, because it got more traffic? And then that turned out to be such a blatant falsehood that companies went bankrupt trying to do this?

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Google #Gemini #AISlop

Definitely read this whole thread about the eBook manager calibre adding AI slop to "chat with books", and why that's a horrible move that immediately destroys trust in calibre. Here are some highlights I especially appreciated:

Here, Calibre, in one release, went from a tool readers can use to, well, read, to a tool that fundamentally views books as textureless content, no more than the information contained within them. Anything about presentation, form, perspective, voice, is irrelevant to that view. Books are no longer art, they're ingots of tin to be melted down.

It is completely irrelevant to me whether this new slopware is opt-in or opt-out. Its mere presence and endorsement fundamentally undermines that stance, that it is good, actually, if readers and authors can exist in relationship to each other without also being under the control of a extractive mindset that sees books as mere vehicles, unimportant as artistic works in and of themselves.

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115671289658145064

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #eBooks #eBookManager #calibre #AISlop

For anyone tracking what's going on with generative AI appearing in the eBook software calibre, the calibre developer seems to be asking us to avoid his software:

In a GitHub issue about adding LLM features:

I definitely think allowing the user to continue the conversation is useful. In my own use of LLMs I tend to often ask followup questions, being able to do so in the same window will be useful.

In other words he likes LLMs and uses them himself; he's probably not adding these features under pressure from users. I can't help but wonder whether there's vibe code in there.


In the bug report:

Wow, really! What is it with you people that think you can dictate what I choose to do with my time and my software? You find AI offensive, dont use it, or even better, dont use calibre, I can certainly do without users like you. Do NOT try to dictate to other people what they can or cannot do.

"You people", also known as paying users. He's dismissive of people's concerns about generative AI, and claims ownership of the software ("my software"). He tells people with concerns to get lost, setting up an antagonistic, us-versus-them scenario. We even get scream caps!

Personally, besides the fact that I have a zero tolerance policy about generative AI, I've had enough of arrogant software developers. Read the room.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #calibre #eBooks #eBookManagers #AISlop #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill #dev #tech #FOSS #SoftwareDevelopment

Hacker News front page today.

Uh-oh.

"AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/

"Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/

"95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds"
https://thedailyadda.com/95-of-companies-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds/

#AI #AISlop

New piece on the blog! This one offering a theological commentary on Christianity and technology (and how it might be rooted in an eschatological heresy!)

#Christianity #Church #Episcopal #Anglican #Evangelical #technology #AI #AISlop

https://catecheticconverter.com/christians-are-supposed-to-be-left-behind

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AISlop #slop #sloperator

Mozilla's new CEO is all-in on AI regardless of what Firefox users want: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050826/

Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

He says the word "trust" a whole bunch of times yet intends to turn an otherwise nice web browser into a slop-slinging platform. I don't expect this will work out very well for anyone.

"It will evolve into a modern AI browser" sounds like a threat. Good way to start off on the right foot, new Mozilla CEO (sarcasm).

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AntiFeatures #DarkPatterns #AISlop #firefox #mozilla #NoAI

Regarding last boost: "Firefox For Web Developers" is out here urging me to stop using Firefox.

#Mozilla #Firefox #DarkPatterns#antifeatures #AISlop #NoAI #NoAIWebBrowsers #AICruft #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #web

Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?

https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273

The last issue hasn't been active since 2023 but the 1st one has been active recently and the middle one last summer.

#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity

AI generated (bad) content aka aislop is killing reality, truth, information, internet, search engines like google, ... We are all fucked... 😮🤔 (Accept we use reputable media/platforms like public broadcast.)

With the new Sora 2 app by openai you just need to enter some text to generate realistic looking videos and publish them online.

Half of worldwide internet traffic is bot generated. internet is becoming ainternet. 💩

4 current analyses:

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World by gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/fake-protest-videos-are-the-latest-ai-slop-to-go-viral-in-maga-world-2000669656
text

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet by kurzgesagt
https://youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?si=ohQnrkJTYURYILkk
video, 12 minutes

SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity? by CaseyNeistat
https://youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?si=B6eS0zLmxGWMstIb
video, 7 minutes

german/french:
KI: Der Tod des Internets by @sixtus https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/122187-000-A/ki-der-tod-des-internets/
video, 51 minutes

#sora2 #sora #ai #fakenews #misinformation #debunking #openai #maga #trump #aislop #kurzgesagt #gizmodo #internet #truth #reality #google #chatgpt #ainternet

So now #Mastodon is #AIslop now...

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38072

I'll not use Mastodon as much as I currently use it now, but at least is way better than Big Tech stuff, so it's not a total loss.

#slopware

True dat.

#climatechange #climate #AIslop #AI

Me listening to Search Engine while running errands through tricky astral passageways.

(Under 60kb!)

Slop? Art? Both? Neither? I do enjoy messin' with AI. There's merriment to be had also a time to turn it ALL OFF.

(If at all curious: created using local generative txt-to-image AI, Stable Diffusion variant with Gimp for touch ups, open source software on Debian Linux with legacy RTX GPU. No cloud, no SaaS, no fee, no subscription, no token limits.)

#art #aislop #ai #astralplanes #robertsmith

Fuck you @github, we didn't ask for this. #copilot #aislop

So this is a mini essay I wrote for my employers, to explain why I refuse to use AI tools at work. They have recently been pushing it and I wanted to make my position crystal clear and attempt to open up discussions. I'm not in a management position so don't have any voice when it comes to decision making. I also struggle to express myself verbally and miss out context.

I initially sent it to my manager on Tuesday. She then had a meeting with her manager and brought it up, and he suggested I send it to him and 2 members of the extended leadership team above him, who are directly below the CEO.

My managers managers response was very positive, he messaged me to say it was very powerful and he wanted to take the weekend to process.

Anyway it's not my best writing but here it is.

#aislop #copilot #antiai #ai

Why I refuse to use AI tools such as Co-pilot, ChatGPT, Claude etc.
Written by human hands and mind – Jax Ven****

As *** leaders increase their push for employees to use AI tools, I would like to lay out the reasons why I refuse to do so. I feel the need to do this in order to show that I am not acting out of a fear of new technology, but as someone who understands technological progression and has been interested in this field for decades, studying virtual reality and AI at university 15 years ago and following the industry closely since. I also hope that this may convince you to pause and reflect, and commit to allowing every employee to choose for themselves if they wish to use AI tools, without being penalised or left behind should we choose not to.

I have always been very optimistic about what AI could bring us and how it could benefit our lives not just in the workplace, but also at home and for society in general. However, to borrow a phrase used often in online tech circles, ‘this is not the AI we were promised’.

Instead we have AI that is unreliable at best, and risking our lives and our environment at worst.

The environmental impact of data centres is huge. A recent report by the IEA (International Energy Agency) found that data centre energy usage had surged during 2025 and was set to continue.

“According to the report – Key Questions on Energy and AI – power consumption per AI task is declining rapidly, with efficiency improving at a rate unprecedented in energy history. However, more people are using AI, and energy-intensive uses – such as AI agents – are on the rise. As a result, electricity consumption from data centres is set to double by 2030, and power use from those focused on AI is poised to triple.”

https://www.iea.org/news/data-centre-electricity-use-surged-in-2025-even-with-tightening-bottlenecks-driving-a-scramble-for-solutions

The IEA article goes on to speculate that AI may drive the creation and large-scale adoption of greener tech, but we are not there yet and the current state of play is dangerous and damaging to our environment right now, regardless of future potential. Future potential does not cancel out current harm.

I do not wish to contribute to this.

In addition to the environmental impact the creation of new data centres is having a detrimental effect on neighbouring communities with the blatant disregard for them. For example, residents of a town in Michigan voted overwhelmingly to not have a 21 Million square feet data centre built close to their town, with the town commission also voting in favour to reject due to the impact it would have on the local environment, electricity demand and increased traffic. Related Digital (OpenAI, Stargate Initiative) successfully sued the town and are going ahead anyway.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/ai-data-center-michigan-saline-politics-farmland/

These data centres are costing billions and billions. The people paying for them are well aware that they have enough money to be able to do whatever the hell they like while making promises of increased opportunities and future green tech. All while they risk destroying the communities surrounding them.

I do not wish to contribute to this.

AI is now being used in war. The same companies that are used to summarise emails or generate a slide deck are being used in cyber defence.

“WASHINGTON — On April 27, the Army convened 14 senior cybersecurity executives from leading technology companies at the Pentagon for the second iteration of its artificial intelligence tabletop exercise, an effort designed to accelerate adoption of agentic AI for cyber defense.
The exercise, known as AI TTX 2.0, brought together C-suite leaders from companies including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and others alongside Army and Department of War leadership. The Office of the Principal Cyber Advisor hosted the half-day event, with design and moderation support from the Special Competitive Studies Project, and partnering organizations including U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Army Cyber Command and the Army Cyber Institute at West Point.”
https://www.army.mil/article/292158/army_convenes_industry_leaders_for_ai_tabletop_exercise_focused_on_cyber_defense

I do not wish to contribute to this.

The effect of regular use of AI tools on cognitive function is still being studied but so far the results are extremely concerning. I enjoy using the skills I’ve developed over the last 30 years. I enjoy figuring things out and learning new things. I enjoy putting my thoughts into words with my own voice. These are the things that motivate me.

I thoroughly believe that the more we rely on AI tools, the easier it will become to offload simple tasks to these tools and the temptation to have them do as much of our workload as possible is too great, especially when we are being told to use AI tools to increase our productivity.

“A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, impaired memory recall, and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. While the AI-gener”ated content often scored well, the brains behind it were shutting down.

https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/

I do not wish to be a victim of this.

Things I am also concerned about but have not written about here in great detail (or this would be 20 pages long) are;

‘Enshittification’ of the internet: can no longer trust search results, or that academic papers, news reports, images, videos and music are not AI created.

Security Risks; apps and software being developed by ‘vibe coding’ are being found to contain serious security flaws that would enable hackers to obtain sensitive customer and company data. Who is checking vibe coders code?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecook/2026/03/20/vibe-coding-has-a-massive-security-problem/

AI is a technology that I would love to be using, and it should be a natural progression of my career. I should relish digging in and getting to know how everything works, being creative and finding new ways to use it. That’s who I am. I would fully embrace it and advocate for it. But not in it’s current format, with it’s current harms, and it’s current masters. The likes of Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are billionaires who do not live in the same reality as the rest of us, and do not have our best interests at heart. The AI models these people are enabling are not the AI we were promised. For all of the reasons outlined above I cannot in good conscience contribute by becoming a user. This is at the core of my ethics and my beliefs, and it would devastate me to be forced to take part. This may seem dramatic but I am just one of many, many people worldwide who are also refusing to take part and that number is growing day by day. I guess we are ‘conscientious objectors’.

It’s not just about an individuals personal use. One could argue that the amount of energy one person uses or their monetary contribution to AI companies from simple day to day workplace tasks is not great enough to be an issue. However, it is about collective use and about ethical standpoints. Do we, as a company with a mission to help people embrace greener technology, really want to contribute to all of these things? Sometimes the only power we have is to choose where our money goes. It’s something I do as an individual consumer and something that companies can do on a grander scale to take a stand and be on the right side. Yes, I understand the need to increase productivity and remain competitive but we were already on the right track before the push to use AI tools. I also believe it is a mistake to rely on them too much as subscription costs are set to soar and the ‘AI Bubble’ predictions are looking more and more likely. I think it’s far better to pause or greatly limit use, allow employees to decide they don’t wish to use it at all, and see what the state of play is in a year or two. ‘Fear of Missing Out’ is a very real phenomena that I sadly see playing out here.

I guarantee I am not the only one at *** who feels this way, but with the job market as it is right now (thanks to AI) it can be very risky to speak out. I know people in other companies who are being forced to use AI tools or risk losing their jobs and I would like to think that we are better than that at ***, but this still feels risky. However I cannot stay silent any more and need to make my position, and my reasoning for this position crystal clear and hope that everything I have outlined can be given serious thought.

Thank you for reading and I look forward to discussing this in more detail should you wish.

This is a long time coming. I've been posting about the decline of arXiv's CS category for a long time now, and even had a few conversations with someone I know who works there about it. Personally, I think the slop started in 2018--prior to generative AI slop--when the CS category at arXiv began the unsustainable exponential growth in submissions that has continued till today. An increasing number of what amounted to corporate whitepapers and other marketing materials were being posted on arXiv to give them the appearance of scientific credibility. There was a fairly clear arXiv-to-Nature pipeline. Citation counts were pumped as some of the scientometric services count arXiv "articles" as citations, and some researchers adopted the bad scholarly habit of citing arXiv preprints instead of the final publication. It was and still is a mess. My understanding is that arXiv was meant as a place for people to put high-quality but pre-publication articles, but at least in the CS category it's drifted quite far from that.

I gather they've finally taken this measure because of the preponderance AI-generated slop, but with any luck these other issues will improve too. The arXiv press release states “Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv” so it does sound like they are acknowledging the other problems and intend to enforce their rules more strictly in the future.

"arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received."
From https://infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154

#arXiv #preprint #CS #spam #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI

Listening to Search Engine announce the Forkiverse while workin' transit, bending space and time to move people, mass and freight in an instant.

File size:45 kb.

(Created with local generative txt-to-image AI. Stable Diffusion variant with help from Gimp, on Debian Linux using a legacy RTX GPU. No cloud, no SaaS, no subscription, no limits)

#art #fiberarts #ai #aislop #astralSlop #astralplanes #funny #spacingguild #searchengine

Love ya all! But clockin' out of this timeline for a while to visit some buds cliff living in a nearby parallel universe with GREAT views of astral planes.

Yes, still listening to #searchengine (Hey small countries DON'T fall for that petro-dollar TRAP!).

Image file size: 43kB!

#art #fineart #ai #aislop #AIart #astralplanes #travel #astraltravel #flying #astral