The article examines the growing influence of two parallel visual content types: authentic imagery depicting real-world events and AI-generated "slop" that often lacks quality and depth. While the former encompasses genuine politics, sports, and news, AI content ranges from trivial animations to politically charged fantasies. This proliferation of AI slop, especially in political contexts, leads to a distortion of reality, where fabricated scenarios spread rapidly across social media and messaging platforms. The politicization of AI artifacts signifies a new form of propaganda that is more accessible and abundant than ever before, thereby challenging our perceptions of truth and reality.
There are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. On one side lies real images—politics, sports, news—while the other presents low-quality AI-generated content.
This new genre of AI slop includes right-wing political fantasies, which have exploded on platforms like YouTube, creating a digital battleground of fiction masquerading as reality.
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