If you’re one of Anthrax‘s 1.1 million monthly listeners over on Spotify, you may have gotten a notification or maybe you noticed on their artist page that a new album suddenly dropped out of nowhere. No fan fare. No hype machine. Just A.I. generated cover art and seven new tracks behind a weird as fuck title — Crazy Sheep. As …
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Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
Brands caught using AI have continued to face backlash from consumers. Last month, Guess sparked outcry online when it featured an AI-generated model in an advertisement that appeared in Vogue. So even outside of any obvious mistakes made by AI tools, some artists say their clients simply want a human touch to distinguish themselves from the growing pool of AI-generated …
Read More »Slop Bowl Slowdown: Why Chipotle, Cava, Sweetgreen Are Struggling
While everyone complains about the commute and annoying coworkers, a sneaky startling part of the return-to-office wave is how expensive slop bowls and sad salads have gotten. The colloquial name for the classic weekday lunch options would indicate a low price point, and yet, one can easily find themselves shelling out $25 on a random Wednesday afternoon for a dispiriting …
Read More »AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill
Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy, and resources to dedicate to this process, and they’re at the whims of the digital distribution platforms these games exist on. Wren Brier, Unpacking’s creative director, says that since the game’s release in 2021, developer Witch Beam has reported more than 80 clones. …
Read More »Palworld Knockoff Slop Gets On Nintendo Switch Despite Lawsuit
The hit 2024 survival crafting sim Palworld is conspicuously absent from the Nintendo eShop amid an ongoing battle with Nintendo, which has accused the game of violating its patents. The same can’t be said for Palland, a cheap knock-off that Nintendo seemed to have no problem approving for sale on the Switch eShop earlier this summer. Glance at the store …
Read More »Uber Eats is stuffing AI slop into your meal
Uber Eats has added a slate of designed to, theoretically, help merchants earn new customers and ease the shopping experience for users. AI-enhanced food images are intended to make dishes more appealing by improving photos uploads. In the , Uber Eats shows an example in which pictures captured very close to the food are transformed into wider field-of-view shots of …
Read More »Why “vibe physics” is the ultimate example of AI slop
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. The most fundamental of all the sciences is physics, as it seeks to describe all of nature in the simplest, most irreducible terms possible. Both the contents of the Universe, as well as the laws that …
Read More »Help, The PlayStation 5 Store Is Flooded With AI Slop
I was recently digging through the PlayStation Store’s upcoming games section when I spotted a clearly AI-generated image of a shark in shoes. “Strange,” I thought to myself. And then I saw another. And then three more. And then even more. That’s when I realized AI slop has fully infested the PSN Store. Nintendo Switch 2 Price Is Set at …
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