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Their words"Slop" is fast becoming the central metaphor for the cultural output of the late twenty-twenties.
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Mental modelValue moves to what stays scarce
Their wordsSo it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
Their wordsThe globalization of generative AI models and tools has caused a kind of leveling, as any aspiring creator anywhere can work in the same visual idioms.
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