(Watch or listen to it, that is.)

AI slop is the fulfillment of the promise of the feed. Content without the burden of meaning or reality. Text, photos, and videos that exist only to provide one more entry in the list. It’s where we’ve been heading since the dawn of Web 2.0 and the endless scroll.

Subscription platforms transform music and film from discrete works into fodder for playlists. Content to be consumed. We don’t watch it listen, we’re fed.

The biggest blockbusters succeeded by emulating the feed: a constant stream, nothing satisfying on its own. The post-credits tease turns every ending into a beginning.

The feed gives the illusion of continuity, but everything is discrete, one thing after another, this then that, not this therefore that. Whatever satisfaction it delivers is from the spectacle of isolated moments. So that becomes what society values.

Added to my reading list, thanks!

I know it's an excessively broad topic, but seeing how people define it is half the appeal.

When?