on this?

I mean, the overall position was that, first of all, slop.

So I have almost like a tetrad of slop.

There was Why We Need to Stop Wearing and Love the Slop.

There's been a genealogy of slop, a taxonomy of slop.

And there's another one, necromatics, which is a slop that kills.

And so what's happened is that I've been trying to figure out what is the impact of AI-generated images on the visual world and visual culture.

but yeah what I'm going to do with all of these everyone I've interviewed I'm going to make a kind of large image of all of these things together kind of scan them in over time because it's like I can make some art out of the notes otherwise they'll just be on a shelf somewhere catching dust I'm trying to like make things out of all of the kind of the dust of all this work that we do okay one more question Is in-shitification real?

Yeah.

I live in New York.

There's...

Every subway has an ad for every single company of GLP-1, you know, whether it's the pill or the injection, and so the brand presence is really felt strong.

I think the average person knows the name Ozempic.

They might not know the company who makes it.

They might know how to get it, uh, but it always is a conversion from, like, actually knowing about the thing to setting up your crypto wallet or actually getting the subscription service.

Um, I, I think, um, maybe, maybe to close out, we, we kind of have been just discussing and dancing around as well, which is when it comes to peptides, when it comes to looksmaxing, um, when it, when it comes to all of these things, are we just going to accelerate forever, or are we going to see some kind of backlash and some kind of reversal? Um, and if we do see a reversal, why would we see it? Um, and I just, just wanted to, to get your take there.

How do we reconcile those two and what can we do to move forward in all of this?

When we talk about people not liking AI, I think one of the main retorts that I hear from people like Marc Andreessen is like, well, ChatGPT has a billion users now, fastest growing product in the history of technology.

And my sense is that the...

So for this, I interviewed people who were across the United States who were using AI.

A lot of people were using it like Google, meaning the sort of building, replacing, or augmentation is not really the main use case, right? Even in the anthropic survey where they surveyed 85,000 people, right? You see that a lot of it is for work, like helping you do your job and...

What not, there's a little bit of life management, and the third thing being just personal chat, kind of like a pseudo-therapist.

But I don't believe that these are the reasons why people dislike AI.

Wow.