2026-10-25T13:46:44Z https://njump.me Roland Meyer https://njump.me/npub1mzy26m32sschh2g3e5pp58epd4275pj86d35yyzze24mmgueyhhsczxugf https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/accounts/avatars/109/433/197/521/246/613/original/283aeeaa86cab8cf.jpg https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/accounts/avatars/109/433/197/521/246/613/original/283aeeaa86cab8cf.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8huhs39fhl0zrfl2lmsuu3zg2t2tvtmayhhq979q054wwelcydtqzyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77suadpy Save the date: Am 22. Oktober kommt Simon Strick nach Zürich, um sein neues Buch «Faschisierung. Fluchtlinie des Digitalen» vorzustellen! <a href="https://www.zentrumkuensteundkulturtheorie.ch/veranstaltungen/aktuell/?n=faschisierung-fluchtlinie-des-digitalen">https://www.zentrumkuensteundkulturtheorie.ch/veranstaltungen/aktuell/?n=faschisierung-fluchtlinie-des-digitalen</a> 2026-09-01T10:34:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfavt2n37zkq4gy7xw0edyrk0r6uzeu6q07nzns8mkmvp76jlh9yqzyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77mfmn3u Das Programm von «Alerta», der «Konferenz zum Faschismus der Gegenwart und Möglichkeiten des Widerstands» im Rahmen des Steirischen Herbstes in Graz, 16.10.–18.10., ist jetzt online! Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Paul Feigelfeld, Orit Halpern, Anna Kraher, Clara Mattei, Simon Strick, Natascha Strobl und yours truly …<a href="https://www.steirischerherbst.at/de/program/events/9151/forum-stadtpark-konferenz-zum-faschismus-der-gegenwart-und-moeglichkeiten-des">https://www.steirischerherbst.at/de/program/events/9151/forum-stadtpark-konferenz-zum-faschismus-der-gegenwart-und-moeglichkeiten-des</a> 2026-08-15T06:53:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs87mgj9naehrtcn7cgj28tfy0lc80dqvr8p7lpuhcke8aajezhc0gzyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77t27l4x This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU&#39;s murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It&#39;s AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can easily be checked with OpenAI&#39;s Verify tool for example<br/>1/<br/> <img src="https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/117/042/321/894/423/725/original/2cf0dafd2d61c109.png"> <br/> 2026-08-05T10:02:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgpjgtdz7ahr2p3jmzq60ynkrwyz0ttdnd6rh9u6z0legs8c4ed2gzyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77tk7jxw Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past 2026-07-25T10:00:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgh3qzrvvr4xzvl2e3nvtks3pvezl8kj949s2klw62uyltpk7lswqzyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj776lcfgt Slop ist überall. Vor allem auf Tiktok. Die fünfte und vorletzte Folge von #Slopaganda, meiner Online-Kolumne für die <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10anpypsjgg8dna7zd9dwzlmqjhed4lhqxhz5ztq5xndmlm8f6ats7nd358" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>WOZ – die Wochenzeitung</span> (<span class="italic">npub10an…d358</span>)</a></span>, handelt von «AI Fruit Drama» und davon, dass auch vermeintlich rein kommerzieller #Slop keineswegs unpolitisch ist: «Reaktionäre Muster»<br/><a href="https://www.woz.ch/kolumnen/2026/07/06/slopaganda-reaktionaere-muster">https://www.woz.ch/kolumnen/2026/07/06/slopaganda-reaktionaere-muster</a> 2026-07-06T17:08:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9mx7hjfn6czcsfc5w62s97e7529p3qqrnkyek0np2wzkuge2lmhczyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77w5mqdj I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it. «Rejectionism» thus is framed as an unwillingness to engage with the technology. But nothing could be further from the truth. Left-wing critique of AI, which takes many forms, is based on an empirical assessment of the impact and implications of the dominant model of AI development.<br/>1/ 2026-05-19T10:47:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0wq354t70m6ygdupaulewnhfkc7a26nu0gknlmns85755vhf8u2gzyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77ksqmqj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdxjxzsfs3j6daggdkxr7kej7w20r64lyet86m96x944kqgqe90mgw6ctcj'>nevent1q…ctcj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>#Slop is the naturalization of a world built from the large-scale extraction, circulation, and endless recycling of dead human labor as platformized, formatted content. It is the automated ideology of platform capitalism.<br/>4/ 2026-05-16T13:23:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdxjxzsfs3j6daggdkxr7kej7w20r64lyet86m96x944kqgqe90mgzyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77ly944w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsts0etggk4276l0k69tahmrtnz5g8v26tekt6mas6fufzkvgyqlhq2dq85y'>nevent1q…q85y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To call #Slop automated is not to say it is free of human labor — rather, this human labor is already embedded in automated chains of operations, not only made machine-like and subsumed under the logic of algorithmic curation, but made machine-readable, dissolved into patterns and quantifiable reactions<br/>3/ 2026-05-16T13:22:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsts0etggk4276l0k69tahmrtnz5g8v26tekt6mas6fufzkvgyqlhqzyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77sdm2gd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyc3cw74upy4uhxsj3hqxrj03lwsz7jl399unlwhckd9g6fmy2f3ck3mceg'>nevent1q…mceg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Understood as ideology, slop is largely devoid of specific content; or rather, its main message lies in its platformized formats, which can be filled by mostly arbitrary and exchangeable content. The aim of slop is less to indoctrinate than to naturalize a world fully mediated and governed by digital platforms, a world that knows no outside of the endless feedback loops of platform capitalism<br/>2/ 2026-05-16T13:21:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyc3cw74upy4uhxsj3hqxrj03lwsz7jl399unlwhckd9g6fmy2f3czyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj776tdrcr Some theses on #Slop (a thread):<br/><br/>Slop is automated ideology. It&#39;s content made of content, optimized for circulation, prompted, shaped, and refined through feedback loops of adaptation to platform conditions. Slop is what you get when the conditions of content distribution — the recommendation algorithms, reaction economies, and monetization schemes of social media — feed directly, continuously and automatically back into content production<br/>1/ 2026-05-16T13:21:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsveewtck2atj9532qxpvp84jd6tvkjqjpvwe6teh0lqafkpr603cczyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77mz9vj5 OpenAI&#39;s sudden discontinuation of its video model #Sora, just a few months after a spectacular deal with Disney, shows just how little these AI companies care about their so-called products. AI video apps, to quote <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1y6gr9wxl29m6m7esa3qy7kq90k00cdv5dswqv07p5s0hyshmlw4s53jdtj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>hito</span> (<span class="italic">npub1y6g…jdtj</span>)</a></span> Steyerl, are «onboarding tools» — their purpose is more ideological than commercial. <br/><br/>Rather than offering revenue-generating services (OpenAI is burning money with every single Sora generated clip), these apps are designed to accustom us to a world in which so-called generative AI seems inevitable — and to provide investors with impressive demonstrations of these models&#39; performance.<br/><br/>In other words, companies like OpenAI do not develop consumer products; they merely launch demos that can be retracted once they have fulfilled their purpose. Never mind that, in the meantime, they are flooding our media landscape with a deluge of #slop and destroying entire cultural sectors in the process. 2026-03-26T06:08:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy4sne0qwwvjayryan2t6lxpla63tttpjfwnrzfvx4335nqlfmkqczyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77rrryvr Annika Brockschmidt beschreibt in diesem erschütternden Artikel das Ausmass, in dem US-Regierungsaccounts Neo-Nazi-Content verbreiten. Ich durfte auch meine Einschätzungen beitragen <a href="https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/us-regierung-neo-nazi-content/">https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/us-regierung-neo-nazi-content/</a> 2026-01-30T17:52:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgw0rzpnpmkc8dgchmqadheff9tmqymyem93s3ups50v2ltn60ykszyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77zr9wg5 There is a growing, deeply problematic tendency to use #AISlop for political education. One recent example from Germany is landtagswahl.ai, which follows the motto: «Hey AI, who should I vote for?» What is typical here is that AI is not only addressed as a pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge. A thread<br/>1/<br/><br/><a href="https://www.landtagswahl.ai">https://www.landtagswahl.ai</a> 2025-10-24T17:10:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0cyr46c27l43dq07mttxqadf8z06yjka7xzlaspeda0c8h5axv6szyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77mqzcdy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsds8l9xe9keefh8ky6z02ys600kjjgtw9kl8yv5r5ad8ysfu5dsesvff4a8'>nevent1q…f4a8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are many reasons why AI slop has become the aesthetic of current digital fascism, but one may lie in the competitive and selective logic of AI training itself: GenAI amplifies the presence of those who are already highly visible while rendering invisible those who are already marginalized. AI image generation ultimately fuses mediocrity with power – it&#39;s the aesthetic and political triumph of the ordinary and predictable. While it&#39;s non-exclusive in terms of use (anyone can generate images) it&#39;s highly exclusionary in terms of representation, making it the perfect tool for crowd-sourced propaganda and #memefascism,<br/>3/3 2025-06-07T05:55:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsds8l9xe9keefh8ky6z02ys600kjjgtw9kl8yv5r5ad8ysfu5dseszyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj775ap4x6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfg3hjq7w4zwp0hcu8j4vnalu6sft7e650dnm3tqqxlutgeehqgpcz3je4p'>nevent1q…je4p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The aim of this latest portrait, however, seems to be to fuse a classic form of presidential representation with the memeified version of himself that Trump has become: memes turning into ‹reality› (as in ‹reality television›), in the form of fascist branding distributed by the official White House channels. That might actually be the one thing Trump understands about both meme culture and AI image generation: it&#39;s all about brand recognition. Trump is a perfect AI meme because he&#39;s already so pervasive in digital visual culture. In a way, he&#39;s been working for decades to be a major factor in every training dataset.<br/>2/3<br/> <img src="https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/114/640/525/131/452/778/original/95f71e5397f64e52.jpg"> <br/> 2025-06-07T05:53:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfg3hjq7w4zwp0hcu8j4vnalu6sft7e650dnm3tqqxlutgeehqgpczyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj778hqvyt As some have already noticed, Trump&#39;s latest official portrait bears a striking resemblance to the aesthetic of #aislop. In particular, his shirt and tie display an almost otherworldly glow and a painterly slickness so typical to many AI image generators. This to me is further evidence of how integral AI has become to Trump&#39;s brand. Of course, every official portrait of Trump has been an exercise in branding – the last one, released at his inauguration in January, visibly attempted to recreate the famous mugshot that had already become a key element of the iconography of MAGA merchandise.<br/>1/3<br/> <img src="https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/114/640/505/096/581/542/original/a757dde5e13da874.jpg"> <br/> 2025-06-07T05:49:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspvses79a65l7g8wz3ygqgth8jg0rxcvhlfy3pfpvf3jlkrxjmagszyrvg3ttw92zrz7afz8xsyxsly9k4t6sxglfkxsssgt92h0drnyj77qwwrm5 Für die Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung habe ich über die aktuellen Lösch- und Zensurkampagnen in den USA und über die veränderte Rolle digitaler Bildarchive angesichts generativer KI geschrieben – und darüber, warum Datensicherung jetzt das Gebot der Stunde ist. Wir brauchen Gegenarchive! <a href="https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/wo-us-behoerden-archivbilder-von-minderheiten-loeschen-110354085.html">https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/wo-us-behoerden-archivbilder-von-minderheiten-loeschen-110354085.html</a> 2025-03-17T07:50:33Z