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A Novel Solution | Ed Callow's avatar

I hate them so much. Derivative slop demonstrating both a perverse desire to commodify our very *selves* (Marx would have a field day) and also a complete lack of taste.

I saw one post exclaiming how incredible it was that these are free. It’s not free if you might as well tip out a bottle of water for every prompt. Another post apologising for being late to the trend, but they got locked out of the LLM for generating *too many* action figure images. One post from someone unironically claiming to be a green specialist marketer; the ‘packaging’ was proudly emblazoned with “saving the planet one project at a time.”

Stop the planet, I want to get off.

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Ellen Kate Boyle's avatar

I've just seen a good post about the 'slop' thing after I posted, I didn't know that term but it fits perfectly here. See also the 'Ghiblification' of images.

Omg, the green marketer one... the irony is wild.

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Kylie-Ann's avatar

Omg so true I am so sick of them already.

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Nia's avatar

I saw one doll photo, thought it was cool, then saw four more back to back and realized it was another trend and immediately got bored of it. Literally the same, what even is the point?!

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Nicola Muthurangu-Hall's avatar

This post is like that scene where Frank Reynolds is dressed as Ongo Gablogian walking around the art gallery saying ‘DERIVATIVE!’ 😂

You’re totally right though - once you’ve seen one or two it’s like… meh.

Maybe it’s just the phase we’re living in which has an unhealthy obsession with perfection and the desperately trying to signify who we are without actually sharing our authentic selves.

I deffo feel AI has its place, but creating art isn’t one of them.

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Ellen Kate Boyle's avatar

HAHA wow, I've never been compared to Frank Reynolds before.

You're right about the phase, I think. I kind of hope that because people are now finding it boring they will move on soon and the only people left interested in AI are those who can actually see its longterm benefits.

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Donna's avatar

Absolutely spot on!! I'm so fed up of seeing them all over my social media. It's not big, it's not clever, and it really is VERY boring!

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Ellen Kate Boyle's avatar

Thanks Donna. I know, it's taken over my feed on every platform, even LinkedIn.

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Mel Barfield - @allcopymel's avatar

"It’s only interesting when one person does it." THIS!! 👏👏👏

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Ellen Kate Boyle's avatar

Exactly! The one creative aspect of using AI to create art is the promp-writing, and if everyone is using the same prompt... that's pointless. It's all just slop.

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Seoana Sherry-Brennan's avatar

THANK YOU!! 100% agree. Not to mention the bloody energy consumption, I dread to think about how many gallons of water it takes to do a single one of these…

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Charles Commins's avatar

Yes, Ellen!!!!

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Ibrahim Khan's avatar

Great 👏👏👏

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Kate Harvey's avatar

I hadn’t come o cross these, so weird! Instead all the sameness too. I notice so many notes on Substack sound the same. Lovely words that are wishy washy, and have no meaning or depth! AI is useful for some things, but we don’t need thousands of things everywhere all the same!

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Tom Ritchie's avatar

It's the digital equivalent of a stranger telling you about their dreams. Fascinating to them, deeply boring to everyone else.

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Ellen Kate Boyle's avatar

omg this is the best allegory for it, exactly that!!

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