"It's hard to believe that just a few short years ago a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti generated by ModelScope, a text-to-video AI model, was the peak of AI slop. Fast-forward to today and our trust for CCTV footage of cute animals has been eroded, slop is showing up across marketing and music playlists, and Sora 2 deepfakes are fooling both grandparents and politicians nationwide."
"A number of artist projects are fighting back against the deluge of slop polluting the shared waters of the internet (or at least poking fun at those who willingly consume it). Steve Nasopoulos and Peter Henningsen, both freelance copywriters, recently created the Slop Trough in their spare time. It's a digital feeding trough that serves up endless slop, so long as you turn on your webcam and get down on all fours like a good little piggy."
AI-generated 'slop' has moved from novelty experiments to widespread, trust-eroding content across online media. Early text-to-video outputs like a Will Smith spaghetti clip signaled the start; now CCTV footage of animals, marketing assets, music playlists, and Sora 2 deepfakes have become unreliable. Artists respond with satirical and defensive projects that expose or filter mass-produced AI output. Slop Trough is a digital feeding trough that dispenses endless AI content when users enable a webcam and assume an on-all-fours pose. Slop Evader filters web searches to include only results from before November 30, 2022, effectively excluding post-ChatGPT generative-AI content.
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