«Egal, wie viel die Macher von ‹Sanxingdui: Future Past› und ‹Gods Don’t Give Gifts› an ihren Werken gefeilt haben mögen: Im Kern sind es keine Filme, sondern #slop in eleganterer Form …» #PlatformRealism
KI-generierten Filme in China und den USA: Jetzt kommt der Kino-Slop
In den USA und China laufen die ersten vollständig KI-generierten Filme an. Mit ihnen wächst der Einfluss der Tech-Unternehmen auf unser Weltbild. Die Gefahren sind groß.
www.faz.net
October 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
«Egal, wie viel die Macher von ‹Sanxingdui: Future Past› und ‹Gods Don’t Give Gifts› an ihren Werken gefeilt haben mögen: Im Kern sind es keine Filme, sondern #slop in eleganterer Form …» #PlatformRealism
Ich hab ja vor längerer Zeit, angeregt durch @jbirken.bsky.social, den Begriff #PlatformRealism vorgeschlagen, und könnte mir vorstellen, dass der auch Aspekte dieser Produktionen beschreibt – eine generische Ästhetik zweiter Ordnung, die bereits massenhaft vorhandene digitale Muster verdichtet
“Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visu...
In May 2023, artist Bjoern Karmann introduced a gadget called Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” based on AI text-to-image synthesis (fig. 1). For Karmann, Paragraphica gives us a glimpse into how g...
journals.openedition.org
October 29, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Ich hab ja vor längerer Zeit, angeregt durch @jbirken.bsky.social, den Begriff #PlatformRealism vorgeschlagen, und könnte mir vorstellen, dass der auch Aspekte dieser Produktionen beschreibt – eine generische Ästhetik zweiter Ordnung, die bereits massenhaft vorhandene digitale Muster verdichtet
«Quick, cheap, repetitive and effective – far-right AI-generated imagery is flooding … social media. Behind the kitsch facade lie parallels to Nazi propaganda, only now mass-media image-making is available to all and insidious, as illustrated by a Slovakian grassroots movement.» #PlatformRealism
The nationalist dream reality is AI generated
Quick, cheap, repetitive and effective – far-right AI-generated imagery is flooding the internet and social media. Behind the kitsch facade lie parallels to Nazi propaganda, only now mass-media image-...
www.eurozine.com
October 20, 2026 at 11:34 AM
«Quick, cheap, repetitive and effective – far-right AI-generated imagery is flooding … social media. Behind the kitsch facade lie parallels to Nazi propaganda, only now mass-media image-making is available to all and insidious, as illustrated by a Slovakian grassroots movement.» #PlatformRealism
In this respect, a #slopaganda image like this is a condensed version of a social media feed. It makes its point through redundancy. It's not only that AI models are trained on platform content; the visual worlds they generate are shaped by platform logics. This is what I call #PlatformRealism
September 26, 2026 at 8:53 AM
In this respect, a #slopaganda image like this is a condensed version of a social media feed. It makes its point through redundancy. It's not only that AI models are trained on platform content; the visual worlds they generate are shaped by platform logics. This is what I call #PlatformRealism
While #PlatformRealism is not necessarily fascist, it lends itself to fascist worldbuilding, for it allows one to naturalize phantasmatic chains of equivalence. In this fantasy, communism, Islam, queer pride, and migration all signify the same thing: a chaos threatening order and stability
September 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
While #PlatformRealism is not necessarily fascist, it lends itself to fascist worldbuilding, for it allows one to naturalize phantasmatic chains of equivalence. In this fantasy, communism, Islam, queer pride, and migration all signify the same thing: a chaos threatening order and stability
Really interested in a "PlatformRealism" analysis of what leads to generating this kind of slop 👇🏻 this is from FB Arabic feed, where arab feminists are harassed/threatened with no support from Meta..leadin to their silencing and retreat from public discourse.The sexual "aesthetic" cannot be hidden.
September 27, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Really interested in a "PlatformRealism" analysis of what leads to generating this kind of slop 👇🏻 this is from FB Arabic feed, where arab feminists are harassed/threatened with no support from Meta..leadin to their silencing and retreat from public discourse.The sexual "aesthetic" cannot be hidden.
Stock aesthetics is the default mode of #PlatformRealism, and the centered, vignette-like composition a standard it reproduces persistently; the bow, finally, bends the wrong way. The model knows what a drawn bow looks like, but not what makes it curve: it reproduces looks without physics
September 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Stock aesthetics is the default mode of #PlatformRealism, and the centered, vignette-like composition a standard it reproduces persistently; the bow, finally, bends the wrong way. The model knows what a drawn bow looks like, but not what makes it curve: it reproduces looks without physics
«A nauseating, nightmarish quality defines A.I.’s insectified interpretation of human cuisine, as if food were just another surrealist goo to stochastically iterate upon. …These images violate science; they mock life itself.» #Slop #PlatformRealism www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials?
www.newyorker.com
September 3, 2026 at 8:26 AM
«A nauseating, nightmarish quality defines A.I.’s insectified interpretation of human cuisine, as if food were just another surrealist goo to stochastically iterate upon. …These images violate science; they mock life itself.» #Slop #PlatformRealism www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Für «DSI Insights» hab ich mir Gedanken darüber gemacht, wie generative KI unser Bild der Geschichte verändert …
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
www.inside-it.ch/dsi-insights...
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
www.inside-it.ch/dsi-insights...
DSI Insights: Wie generative KI unser Bild der Geschichte verändert
Generative KI wird oft als Technologie der Zukunft beschrieben. Dabei gerät aus dem Blick, was sie bereits jetzt für unseren Blick auf Vergangenes bedeutet.
www.inside-it.ch
August 25, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Für «DSI Insights» hab ich mir Gedanken darüber gemacht, wie generative KI unser Bild der Geschichte verändert …
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
www.inside-it.ch/dsi-insights...
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
www.inside-it.ch/dsi-insights...
'For "DSI Insights", I've been thinking about how generative AI is changing our image of history …
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
www.inside-it.ch/dsi-insights...'
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
www.inside-it.ch/dsi-insights...'
Für «DSI Insights» hab ich mir Gedanken darüber gemacht, wie generative KI unser Bild der Geschichte verändert …
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
www.inside-it.ch/dsi-insights...
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
www.inside-it.ch/dsi-insights...
DSI Insights: Wie generative KI unser Bild der Geschichte verändert
Generative KI wird oft als Technologie der Zukunft beschrieben. Dabei gerät aus dem Blick, was sie bereits jetzt für unseren Blick auf Vergangenes bedeutet.
www.inside-it.ch
August 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM
'For "DSI Insights", I've been thinking about how generative AI is changing our image of history …
#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
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#Histoslop #PlatformRealism
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Nearly six minutes of #PlatformRealism: a fantasy of world domination, in which the world consists entirely of vibes and clichés derived from aggregated stolen content. Here, everything seems possible, and yet nothing happens beyond the endless repetition of patterns of white male domination
This Elon Christ Superstar AI movie goes on for SIX minutes, and it’s as hilarious at is terrifying due to the reflection of just who exactly has taken control of everything in this world
August 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Nearly six minutes of #PlatformRealism: a fantasy of world domination, in which the world consists entirely of vibes and clichés derived from aggregated stolen content. Here, everything seems possible, and yet nothing happens beyond the endless repetition of patterns of white male domination
¿Se enfrentan las democracias modernas a una nueva evolución de los deepfakes? ¿O a un nuevo tipo de manipulación política mucho más persuasivo y disruptivo?
Te lo explico a continuación
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#IA #ManipulaciónDigital #Deepfakes #Deepsynthetics #PlatformRealism #GenAI #AlgorithmicDemocracy
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#IA #ManipulaciónDigital #Deepfakes #Deepsynthetics #PlatformRealism #GenAI #AlgorithmicDemocracy
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Uno de los creadores del vídeo de Gaza y Trump, Solo Avital, cree que aún podremos vivir un momento 'La guerra de los mundos', de Orson Welles. Ahora podría pasar algo así, dice: un clip de IA con “Trump anunciando que está empezando la Tercera Guerra Mundial”
Llega la explosión política de vídeos con IA: de los temidos ‘deepfakes’ al humor barato que viraliza
Los ejemplos de Donald Trump y del Partido Popular son los últimos casos de una tecnología cuyo objetivo público es por ahora más sorprender que engañar
elpais.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
¿Se enfrentan las democracias modernas a una nueva evolución de los deepfakes? ¿O a un nuevo tipo de manipulación política mucho más persuasivo y disruptivo?
Te lo explico a continuación
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#IA #ManipulaciónDigital #Deepfakes #Deepsynthetics #PlatformRealism #GenAI #AlgorithmicDemocracy
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#IA #ManipulaciónDigital #Deepfakes #Deepsynthetics #PlatformRealism #GenAI #AlgorithmicDemocracy
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«These generated worlds appear speculative on the surface, but they remain fundamentally retrospective. … What appears as an image of the future is, in fact, a statistical reconstruction of an already mediated past.» #PlatformRealism #Slopaganda #HistoSlop
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ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publi...
Occupying the Imaginary: AI Slop and Rendering the Nation | Ibraaz
A brave space for art, culture, and ideas from the global majority
ibraaz.org
July 28, 2026 at 3:19 PM
«These generated worlds appear speculative on the surface, but they remain fundamentally retrospective. … What appears as an image of the future is, in fact, a statistical reconstruction of an already mediated past.» #PlatformRealism #Slopaganda #HistoSlop
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ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publi...
We're feeding #Slop to the kids: «Some 59% of videos served to a new TikTok account’s ‹For You› page are AI slop … And a similar share (57.4%) of all TikTok videos aimed at children are AI slop, too.» #AISlop #PlatformRealism
www.kapwing.com/resources/th...
www.kapwing.com/resources/th...
The TikTok AI Slop Report
New research from Kapwing reveals that nearly 60% of TikToks served to new users and children are AI slop. But which categories and tags are the worst affected — and what does this landscape look like...
www.kapwing.com
June 10, 2026 at 5:06 AM
We're feeding #Slop to the kids: «Some 59% of videos served to a new TikTok account’s ‹For You› page are AI slop … And a similar share (57.4%) of all TikTok videos aimed at children are AI slop, too.» #AISlop #PlatformRealism
www.kapwing.com/resources/th...
www.kapwing.com/resources/th...
«Brain rot implies a kind of communal hallucination, slop implies automation, solely the hallucination and machination of the machine. One suggests an internet that is still being co-authored, however deranged; the other suggests an internet that is simply being inhabited.» #AISlop #PlatformRealism
SLOP IS THAT DEEP
“Do you sense that you live in a world that literally makes no fucking sense? A world that’s made to make you feel like you’re going, like, batshit crazy. A world whose fucked up kink is to continuall...
icon.ink
May 8, 2026 at 4:58 AM
«Brain rot implies a kind of communal hallucination, slop implies automation, solely the hallucination and machination of the machine. One suggests an internet that is still being co-authored, however deranged; the other suggests an internet that is simply being inhabited.» #AISlop #PlatformRealism
#GenAI «… will likely accelerate the digital homogenization of visual culture … Whether it’s popular fashion, architecture or interior design, idiosyncrasies are collapsing into a generic, hegemonic aesthetic – what scholars Roland Meyer and Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social call #PlatformRealism.»
Indie coffee shops are meant to counter corporate behemoths like Starbucks – so why do they all look the same?
The purportedly unique and local feel of coffee shops has instead been homogenized into a singular, palatable aesthetic.
theconversation.com
March 15, 2026 at 8:08 AM
#GenAI «… will likely accelerate the digital homogenization of visual culture … Whether it’s popular fashion, architecture or interior design, idiosyncrasies are collapsing into a generic, hegemonic aesthetic – what scholars Roland Meyer and Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social call #PlatformRealism.»
Generative AI is the production of synthetic content based on existing content. It's, almost by definition, a zombie technology, and turning us all into online zombies, neither alive nor dead, endlessly churning out content, is its perfect use case
#PlatformRealism
#PlatformRealism
Meta has patented AI that can run a dead person's account, continuing to post and chat on their behalf
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
February 21, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Generative AI is the production of synthetic content based on existing content. It's, almost by definition, a zombie technology, and turning us all into online zombies, neither alive nor dead, endlessly churning out content, is its perfect use case
#PlatformRealism
#PlatformRealism
On vibes and #genAI, see also my essay #PlatformRealism: «Like mood boarding, AI image synthesis is a technique for curating vibes—based not on assembling a manual montage of discrete pictures but on extracting and synthesizing patterns distilled from a seemingly freely accessible virtual archive.»
“Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visu...
In May 2023, artist Bjoern Karmann introduced a gadget called Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” based on AI text-to-image synthesis (fig. 1). For Karmann, Paragraphica gives us a glimpse into how g...
journals.openedition.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
On vibes and #genAI, see also my essay #PlatformRealism: «Like mood boarding, AI image synthesis is a technique for curating vibes—based not on assembling a manual montage of discrete pictures but on extracting and synthesizing patterns distilled from a seemingly freely accessible virtual archive.»
«Reactionary nostalgia, a desire to return to a fake past or a time when you were young and things were better, is part of why the world is so fucked right now. It is, literally, the basis of MAGA.»
#ArtificialNostalgia #PlatformRealism #AISlop www.404media.co/80s-nostalgi...
#ArtificialNostalgia #PlatformRealism #AISlop www.404media.co/80s-nostalgi...
80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed
AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.
www.404media.co
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
«Reactionary nostalgia, a desire to return to a fake past or a time when you were young and things were better, is part of why the world is so fucked right now. It is, literally, the basis of MAGA.»
#ArtificialNostalgia #PlatformRealism #AISlop www.404media.co/80s-nostalgi...
#ArtificialNostalgia #PlatformRealism #AISlop www.404media.co/80s-nostalgi...
This is another attempt to describe how #PlatformRealism is reconfiguring expectations of visual truth by producing images that are understood as ‹emblematic› rather than specific
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«I know it's AI but tells a true story» – this deeply cynical statement highlights a fundamental aspect of AI #slopaganda. Videos like this aren't just for spreading misinformation. They're reinforcing existing beliefs by creating a synthetic reality that people perceive and feel to be «true»
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Google Veo 3 providing new and exciting ways to do racism.
June 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is another attempt to describe how #PlatformRealism is reconfiguring expectations of visual truth by producing images that are understood as ‹emblematic› rather than specific
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Another thread on #AIslop, #MemeFascism and #PlatformRealism, focusing on how the aesthetic of #genAI has become a central to Trump's visual branding
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As some have already noticed, Trump's latest official portrait bears a striking resemblance to the aesthetic of #AIslop. In particular, his shirt and tie display an otherworldly glow and an almost painterly smoothness. To me, this is further evidence of how integral AI has become to Trump's brand
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June 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Another thread on #AIslop, #MemeFascism and #PlatformRealism, focusing on how the aesthetic of #genAI has become a central to Trump's visual branding
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Yes, absolutely. You cannot understand current genAI, not only Slop, outside of platform capitalism: digital platforms are the main infrastructural condition both for the training and testing of the models as well as for the production and distribution of its output #PlatformRealism
May 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Yes, absolutely. You cannot understand current genAI, not only Slop, outside of platform capitalism: digital platforms are the main infrastructural condition both for the training and testing of the models as well as for the production and distribution of its output #PlatformRealism
This is only consequential: #AIslop is a product of social media platforms, their extractivist business models, recommendation logics, filter aesthetics, reaction economies & meme politics. Social media is both a key resource for AI to exploit and the environment it's optimized for
#PlatformRealism
#PlatformRealism
SCOOP: OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed. www.theverge.com/openai/64813...
April 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is only consequential: #AIslop is a product of social media platforms, their extractivist business models, recommendation logics, filter aesthetics, reaction economies & meme politics. Social media is both a key resource for AI to exploit and the environment it's optimized for
#PlatformRealism
#PlatformRealism
«Fascism, especially the 21st-century version practiced by the MAGA movement, is at war with reality. The hyperreality of the MAGA aesthetic is about power. Unable to create good or beautiful things, they express dominance by turning everything ugly.»
#PlatformRealism #AISlop #MemeFascism
#PlatformRealism #AISlop #MemeFascism
I joined the discourse on "Mar-a-Lago face" and the MAGA love of weird AI art. The hideousness of Cybertrucks also matter.
Yes, it's all gross and ugly. That's the point. The visual assault is yet another fascist display of power.
www.salon.com/2025/03/24/f...
Yes, it's all gross and ugly. That's the point. The visual assault is yet another fascist display of power.
www.salon.com/2025/03/24/f...
From "Mar-a-Lago face" to uncanny AI art: Why MAGA loves ugliness
One of the swiftest ways to "trigger" the liberals is looking awful
www.salon.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
«Fascism, especially the 21st-century version practiced by the MAGA movement, is at war with reality. The hyperreality of the MAGA aesthetic is about power. Unable to create good or beautiful things, they express dominance by turning everything ugly.»
#PlatformRealism #AISlop #MemeFascism
#PlatformRealism #AISlop #MemeFascism
Yes, sure, your grandparents lived in an AI-generated white supremacist Americana fantasy full of nonsense signage
#PlatformRealism #ArtificialNostalgia
#PlatformRealism #ArtificialNostalgia
March 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Yes, sure, your grandparents lived in an AI-generated white supremacist Americana fantasy full of nonsense signage
#PlatformRealism #ArtificialNostalgia
#PlatformRealism #ArtificialNostalgia