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Kyle Chayka

What Kyle Chayka thinks about AI slop

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  1. Our readingAI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.

    taste

    Their wordsIf the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.

    ↗The generic style of AI web designkylechayka.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingAI-driven homogenization will spread across every field of human endeavor until AI becomes truly original or is curbed.

    Their wordsthis kind of instantly ubiquitous homogeneity is going to happen across every field of human endeavor in the era of AI, until AI gets so powerful that it actually becomes original (doubtful) or until we shut it down.

    ↗The generic style of AI web designkylechayka.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  4. 5 weeks earlier

  5. Our readingSlop is becoming the defining cultural metaphor of the late 2020s.

    Their words"Slop" is fast becoming the central metaphor for the cultural output of the late twenty-twenties.

    ↗RIP Millennial lifestyle brandskylechayka.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  6. 9 months earlier

  7. Our readingPeople's desperate need to manipulate their own image, and their acceptance of being human-machine hybrids in the AI era, is reflected in current ugly, artificial-feeling consumer aesthetics.

    Their wordsI think this slop-adjacent realm of dupe products and Instagrammable potions points to our increasingly desperate need to manipulate our own images, and an acceptance of the fact that we're kind of hybridized monsters ourselves in this post-A.I. human-machine moment

    ↗Labubus and the brainrot aesthetickylechayka.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece