BUZZING· 73%42m·2026-09-02·TechnologyLLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many reasons why LLMS can never truly make art. Why Slop Matters: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06060 Arif Hasan wideleft.football x.com/ArifHasanNFL…
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“As someone who's spent a lot of years producing "low art" - fanfiction, screencap webcomics, narrative game mods, what have you - I bristle at the suggestion that the non-value of GenSlop is anywhere near comparable to the genuine value of…”
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