Roland Meyer
@bildoperationen.bsky.social
Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
PS: Hab die Apotheke gefunden, und gegenüber war das hier, ich vermute, meinem elfjährigen Ich hätte das gefallen
January 31, 2026 at 5:10 PM
PS: Hab die Apotheke gefunden, und gegenüber war das hier, ich vermute, meinem elfjährigen Ich hätte das gefallen
Okay, I am fine with this
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Okay, I am fine with this
Mich irritiert es auch. Es finden sich andere Abbildungen derselben Arbeit von Grete Stern online, allerdings weit weniger glatt und hochauflösend. Meine Vermutung ist, dass AI hier eventuell benutzt wurde, um die Vorlage zu «restaurieren», sprich: aufzuhübschen (ein absolutes No-Go IMHO)
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Mich irritiert es auch. Es finden sich andere Abbildungen derselben Arbeit von Grete Stern online, allerdings weit weniger glatt und hochauflösend. Meine Vermutung ist, dass AI hier eventuell benutzt wurde, um die Vorlage zu «restaurieren», sprich: aufzuhübschen (ein absolutes No-Go IMHO)
Allerdings haben die Zeugen Jehovas darauf geachtet, dass in ihren himmlischen Idyllen Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft und Hautfarbe friedlich und harmonisch miteinander leben
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Allerdings haben die Zeugen Jehovas darauf geachtet, dass in ihren himmlischen Idyllen Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft und Hautfarbe friedlich und harmonisch miteinander leben
Bei der «Stadtbild»-Debatte ging es stets um Bilder, um rassistische Phantasmen der Reinigung wie um die nostalgische Sehnsucht nach einer Vergangenheit, die nur in Bildern existiert. AI Slop nimmt nun im Imaginären vorweg, was man für die Wirklichkeit plant: die ethnische Säuberung der Innenstädte
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Bei der «Stadtbild»-Debatte ging es stets um Bilder, um rassistische Phantasmen der Reinigung wie um die nostalgische Sehnsucht nach einer Vergangenheit, die nur in Bildern existiert. AI Slop nimmt nun im Imaginären vorweg, was man für die Wirklichkeit plant: die ethnische Säuberung der Innenstädte
Kann da Entwarnung geben
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Kann da Entwarnung geben
Anekdotische Ergänzung: Ich bin (nicht ganz) zufällig gerade in Marburg, und das erste, was ich sehe, nachdem ich mich in Uni-Netz eingewählt habe, ist das hier ...
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Anekdotische Ergänzung: Ich bin (nicht ganz) zufällig gerade in Marburg, und das erste, was ich sehe, nachdem ich mich in Uni-Netz eingewählt habe, ist das hier ...
Das war allerdings auch genau die Frage, bei der ich kurz gezögert habe ...
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Das war allerdings auch genau die Frage, bei der ich kurz gezögert habe ...
Here's the full image - what's up with these weird grey figures?
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Here's the full image - what's up with these weird grey figures?
I somehow expected the official image of Trump's new ballroom to be AI slop, but it's only a very sloppy 3D rendering, which is kind of a disappointment …
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I somehow expected the official image of Trump's new ballroom to be AI slop, but it's only a very sloppy 3D rendering, which is kind of a disappointment …
Since I hardly ever watch German TV anymore, I had been spared this latest form of #AIslop histotainment until now. But now I've seen it, and you have to see it too, sorry...
October 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Since I hardly ever watch German TV anymore, I had been spared this latest form of #AIslop histotainment until now. But now I've seen it, and you have to see it too, sorry...
PS: The same people responsible for the AI election guide slop discussed in the thread below also launched this horrible project, where museum visitors can generate «digital city visions» to replace Düsseldorf's brutalist Kunsthalle ... antonio-bot.ai/gallery/kuns...
October 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
PS: The same people responsible for the AI election guide slop discussed in the thread below also launched this horrible project, where museum visitors can generate «digital city visions» to replace Düsseldorf's brutalist Kunsthalle ... antonio-bot.ai/gallery/kuns...
AI image generation not only lends such generic visualizations of imaginary future scenarios a statistical pseudo-objectivity and a deceptive aura of neutrality, but also renders the politics employed to realize such a future invisible – by showing only results and no decisions or processes
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
AI image generation not only lends such generic visualizations of imaginary future scenarios a statistical pseudo-objectivity and a deceptive aura of neutrality, but also renders the politics employed to realize such a future invisible – by showing only results and no decisions or processes
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And it’s thus no coincidence that right-wing parties have used exactly this kind of images before in a similar manner: if your politics is all about offering imaginary solutions to mostly phantasmatic problems, generative AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
And it’s thus no coincidence that right-wing parties have used exactly this kind of images before in a similar manner: if your politics is all about offering imaginary solutions to mostly phantasmatic problems, generative AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image
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However, the problem with these images is not just their genericness. It's the deeply populist idea that politics can be reduced to its immediately visible effects: politics is not judged by how it affects people's concrete daily lives, but rather by its aesthetics—by what image it produces
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
However, the problem with these images is not just their genericness. It's the deeply populist idea that politics can be reduced to its immediately visible effects: politics is not judged by how it affects people's concrete daily lives, but rather by its aesthetics—by what image it produces
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We get to see video game-like bird's-eye views of imaginary cities outside of space & time, almost random assemblages of easily legible visual symbols, such as nuclear power plants or solar panels, each representing a political position: generic images mostly lacking coherence & plausibility
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We get to see video game-like bird's-eye views of imaginary cities outside of space & time, almost random assemblages of easily legible visual symbols, such as nuclear power plants or solar panels, each representing a political position: generic images mostly lacking coherence & plausibility
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The project assembles AI images of cityscapes supposedly representing the political programs of various parties. With their otherworldly glow and cartoonish aesthetics, all of these images have the same generic AI slop look familiar from countless LinkedIn posts and PowerPoint presentations
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The project assembles AI images of cityscapes supposedly representing the political programs of various parties. With their otherworldly glow and cartoonish aesthetics, all of these images have the same generic AI slop look familiar from countless LinkedIn posts and PowerPoint presentations
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I mean, let's be honest, if someone pays 24k for this, it has nothing to do with art & aesthetics and everything to do with money laundering.
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I mean, let's be honest, if someone pays 24k for this, it has nothing to do with art & aesthetics and everything to do with money laundering.
Martin Kippenberger, «Jetzt geh ich in den Birkenwald, denn meine Pillen wirken bald"», 1991
October 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Martin Kippenberger, «Jetzt geh ich in den Birkenwald, denn meine Pillen wirken bald"», 1991
If you need another reason to oppose corporate academic publishing, AI slop cover art might be one. Wonder what Marx would have said (or Hegel, for that matter) …
September 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you need another reason to oppose corporate academic publishing, AI slop cover art might be one. Wonder what Marx would have said (or Hegel, for that matter) …
KI hin oder her, mich macht vor allem der Krawattenknoten fertig
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
KI hin oder her, mich macht vor allem der Krawattenknoten fertig
