Derivative AI art is, by, definition. I have been writing here about AI-induced enshittification (extending a term originally due to Cory Doctorow) regularly for the last couple years, using that specific term for the first time almost exactly two years ago to the day:Needless to say, David Simon's quote above was prescient. §My efforts to enshrine Doctorow's term (enshittification) in AI context haven't thus far been entirely successful, but a slightly more polite term does seem to be gaining traction, AI slop.
§My efforts to enshrine Doctorow's term (enshittification) in AI context haven't thus far been entirely successful, but a slightly more polite term does seem to be gaining traction, AI slop. Here, for example, is part of what Axios had to say about AI slop in their newsletter this morning:I have of course also worried frequently about what enshittification (and AI slop) might do to science: That has, of course, only gotten worse.