Reading these lines in Open City by Teju Cole got me thinking about infinite AI Slop for some reason, and why it even exists as a concept. Maybe it's the innumeracy that the author talks about
This was part of my suspicion that there was a mood in the society that pushed people more toward snap judgments and unexamined opinions, an antiscientific mood; to the old problem of mass innumeracy, it seemed to me, was being added a more general inability to assess evidence. This made brisk business for those whose specialty was in the promising of immediate solutions: politicians, or priests of the various religions. It worked particularly well for those who wished to rally people around a cause. The cause itself, whatever it was, hardly mattered. Partisanship was all.
There is nothing more immediate that AI generating endless video reels whose only value is that it grabs human eyeballs and advertisers can monetize that attention. If the population is generally anti-scientific and lacks the ability to assess evidence, the conditions feel completely ripe for the infinite slop machine that has now been unleashed on us all.
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