If you want a deepdive on robot restaurant issues, i have written about both animatronic robot servers and performances of automation, and Eatsa's digital automat and the hiding of human labor behind "frictionless" tech. 🤖🍕

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

reallifemag.com/ill-at-ease/

will listen! have been annoyed with the "clicktatership" "influencer administration", "slopaganda" etc framing of this all lol

i think youre going down the right path. in an era where image manipulation is so easy, its interesting that so many of the debates take for granted the image objects as a common starting point (and then diverge in their interpretation). that seems important to conceptualize!

or maybe "slop" is just so broad it fits whatever your fave theoretical framework or opinion is, so all this meta-commentary is just slopslop

it feels right to call "slop" both that which works so well it is standardized everywhere and that which makes no sense at all. highly optimized systems also produce the most confusing outcomes (or horrific ones, see Bauman)

been saying this! maybe one way to frame it is Weberian rationalization as about production, mcdondization as incorporating consumption, and slop theory could better integrate prosumption?

love that "slop" doesnt just mean "AI" but rightly describes a whole regressive (and boring) system that produces much of our lived reality. a system that has especially fallen in love with AI

i do my best to not write about that every day lol

i.e. chatbot use can restructure our means for self-knowledge, routing what was once "introspection" through a tech company's servers and its ideological modulations

hey, thanks, still LA - sent you a DM!

what if we just made the whole plane out of the Gettier problem?

why consume ideas in a format where the speaker knows they wont be diligently cited and put under intellectual scrutiny?

the hyperbole as criticism schtick is played out