If you are currently surrounded by people (at the office, cafe, street or even home) do a quick scan. How many people are wearing something blue? Could be a hat, a t-shirt, shorts or skirts or even their socks. How about you? My trousers and socks are both blue as I sit here in my…
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Embracing the Slop – Sturgeon’s Law in the Age of AI
Right now, there is a pervasive panic that Generative AI is flooding the world with “slop”. Critics (or the average unc on X) are crying out that human creativity is officially dead, drowned in a sea of algorithmic garbage. But before we mourn the loss of human genius, let’s take a walk through history. In…

