That Clip Has Sailed

“But the flood of financially incentivized ‘slop’ has also given way to a strange new internet, where social media feeds overflow with unsettlingly lifelike imagery and even real videos can appear suspect. Some viral clips now barely rely on humans at all, with AI tools generating not just the imagery but also the ideas.” WaPo (Gift Article): Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal video business taking over the web. (As with all of the stories, you have to remember that these technologies are only getting warmed up. In movie parlance, we’re still just watching the previews.)