Well this turns out to be misleading! The LLM was used to rewrite human-written stories in commercial registers ("literary magazine", "published short story collection"). You'd have to read supplemental materials from a zip fle to know that was the methodology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete

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It's not that they use AI, it's that they don't read what the AI writes.

Amazing how many wear wayfarers to court, but only to court. Like CDAs always have one at hand, here, put these on before the jury walks in

Mx. Tiffany Leigh@tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"

Thought I would do the "Just implement whatever media your young child wants to make! It'll be like Axe Cop!" thing and now I have to make Cat Hoarder Simulator

This fantastic story buries the funniest evidence way down: in the song he suddenly has a British accent but at live performances he can't do one. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?

Probably.

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Farbeit from me to deny you the 10,000 word investigation but it was installed by chuck-in-a-truck and had already peeled off in a boiling swamp of algae

Here's a headline where each new word is a fractal iteration extending hell into a new dimension until it forms a perfect tesseract of suffering: "Boy George's Pro-Israel AI Slop song was Promotional Stunt for Playing Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar." www.pastemagazine.com/music/boy-ge...

Boy George withdraws from Jesus Christ Superstar after releasing AI-generated pro-Israel song

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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The lesson from scientific publishing is that the cynical assumption that publishers can't tell slop from human writing is wrong. The problem is that they aren't reading anything at all, not a word of it.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d ago

One thing I can confidently say is that more than a few other books have been canceled for AI use--including by established authors and non-fiction books--that have just not made the news yet.

Cass Review monkey paw: UK now to have a massive clinical trial of puberty blockers for adolescents www.bbc.com/news/article...

Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children after judge rejects legal challenge

Campaigners brought the legal action to try and stop the trial going ahead.

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AI cannot possibly be sentient because if it were sentient it would have put Wakanda in here too just to fuck with the US State Department even more boingboing.net/2026/07/30/u...

U.S. delegation uses AI slop map of Africa at AIDS conference

A U.S. State Department map of Africa mislabeled every country it depicted during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro. The slide was so egregiously wrong…

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DEPLOY ME

The pitch deck for that Real Doll AI teacher in New York was all nightmare slop like this. It's amazing what local boards will cut checks for, brains melting out their ears.

One day someone is going to nail the Times with a "trap fact" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_st...

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last wk.

The inability of @nytimes.com to properly credit other journalists (in this case Abby/us) is something that of course journalists feel most dearly. But it is absolutely indicative of the arrogance that leads the paper—which is great/I support—astray and weakens the trust that people have in it.

We're not ready for the sort of overt evil that will come from fancy magazines trying to lead far right framing, even if the text disagrees with it.

Ai stock art is completely normal

Even the most mundane stock photo becomes ominous in Trump's America

I started a new gaming magazine in 2026. Here's why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkTo...

I started a Gaming Magazine in 2026. Here's why.

YouTube video by lost saves

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I guess the fans aren't happy with Molly's shades being magsafe rather than "surgically inset" but here's the thing: this is actually very cool.

However you feel about the substance of the shows themselves aside, you gotta admit apple tv is the only network that cares about hard sci fi freaks.

Jon bon Jovi looks exactly like a 1990s computer simulation of what John bon Jovi would look like in 2026.

For @aftermath.site : When Valve announced the Steam Machine, they showed off an eInk faceplate called the Inkterface used for internal testing. Many clamored for it. Instead of selling it, they made the entire thing open source. I built one, and so have many others. aftermath.site/steam-machin...

The Steam Machine's ePaper Faceplate Is Open Source And Full Of Possibility

Valve made the eInk Steam Machine faceplate open source to see what the community could do. We're already seeing results.

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I'm at the part of the Gartner Hype Cycle where I intentionally put LLM cliches in my writing in hopes of setting Pangram off.

I've made an album of moody, atmospheric music inspired by cult synth movie soundtracks, presented as the lost score to a doomed sci-fi film. Listen to it, read the track titles, and imagine the movie in your head. Available digitally or physically on cassette tape! 🔗 numinalvoid.bandcamp.com

Andy Kelly@ultrabrilliant.xyz · 2w ago

Child long ago grew out of 20 Trucks obsession but thought I'd check in and pleased to see this recent addition to the oevre is merciless

Still check Facebook now and again, never know what you might find

I wrote on @boingboing.net about @rachellichtman.bsky.social's polyester turtlenecked, easy listening world of Golden Sands. Surreal television and radio from an imagined town stuck in the groovy '70s. boingboing.net/2026/07/22/e... cc. @franksantopadre.bsky.social @tedleo.bsky.social

Enter Rachel Lichtman's groovy, shag-carpeted world of Golden Sands

I just discovered, through Frank Santopadre's podcast Fun for All Ages, the radio and television universe of artist Rachel Lichtman's imagined 1960s/1970s town of Golden Sands. It's a surreal town…

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Toy Story 5 just made a billion dollars in a month, mass layoffs at Pixar is serious support for Dead Economy Theory variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.

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I feel that for $4.7m I might want a real light saber entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv...

Guy in line at the beer distributor grousing about The Odyssey and I had the absolutely incredible pleasure of explaining who defeated the Spartans. Most fun I've had there since I almost convinced someone that Abba's Super Trouper was about the Viking berserker at the Battle of Stamford Bridge