The Slop Tax, a Brief Introduction - by Mike Pepi

The following is a sneak peek into a larger project. I am looking for insights, feedback, and other contributions to support this idea. So in that way it’s a bit of teaser— a blueprint, if you will — but also an invitation. Want to work on this with me? Want to publish the next piece I write on the Slop Tax? DM me. Hopefully, this is not the last you hear about The Slop Tax 😀. Early AI breakthroughs were promising. Processing large amounts of data and coming to reasonable conclusions contained utility for a variety of applications in science, industry, and research. As the compute increased and the money followed, private AI companies armed with generative AI went further, vowing to unleash “abundance”, cure disease, and solve our most pressing problems. Critics and humanists discounted the AI utopianism as just another tech hype cycle. Meanwhile, our cultural institutions, media outlets, and casual internet users had little choice but to endure platforms inserting “AI” into every cor

The following is a sneak peek into a larger project. I am looking for insights, feedback, and other contributions to support this idea. So in that way it’s a bit of teaser— a blueprint, if you will — but also an invitation. Want to work on this with me? Want to publish the next piece I write on the Slop Tax? DM me. Hopefully, this is not the last you hear about The Slop Tax 😀. Early AI breakthroughs were promising. Processing large amounts of data and coming to reasonable conclusions contained utility for a variety of applications in science, industry, and research. As the compute increased a