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Beyond Slop

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Visions for humane creative AI tools based on craft, process, and emergence.

Beyond Slop Beyond Slop Visions for humane creative AI tools based on craft, process, and emergence Each generation of generative AI fills our feeds with images that look more like each other than like the work of any individual using them. Great for memes, but quickly abandoned. The trendy word for this is slop . Deep Dream's psychedelic dogs gave way to StyleGAN's endless faces, then VQGAN+CLIP's surrealist mashups, and now diffusion's photorealistic everything. Responses tend toward breathless hype or reactionary dismissal. The hype says these tools are creative revolutions and the dismissa

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