Roland Meyer
@bildoperationen.bsky.social
Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Das war allerdings auch genau die Frage, bei der ich kurz gezögert habe ...
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Das war allerdings auch genau die Frage, bei der ich kurz gezögert habe ...
Here's the full image - what's up with these weird grey figures?
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Here's the full image - what's up with these weird grey figures?
I somehow expected the official image of Trump's new ballroom to be AI slop, but it's only a very sloppy 3D rendering, which is kind of a disappointment …
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I somehow expected the official image of Trump's new ballroom to be AI slop, but it's only a very sloppy 3D rendering, which is kind of a disappointment …
Since I hardly ever watch German TV anymore, I had been spared this latest form of #AIslop histotainment until now. But now I've seen it, and you have to see it too, sorry...
October 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Since I hardly ever watch German TV anymore, I had been spared this latest form of #AIslop histotainment until now. But now I've seen it, and you have to see it too, sorry...
PS: The same people responsible for the AI election guide slop discussed in the thread below also launched this horrible project, where museum visitors can generate «digital city visions» to replace Düsseldorf's brutalist Kunsthalle ... antonio-bot.ai/gallery/kuns...
October 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
PS: The same people responsible for the AI election guide slop discussed in the thread below also launched this horrible project, where museum visitors can generate «digital city visions» to replace Düsseldorf's brutalist Kunsthalle ... antonio-bot.ai/gallery/kuns...
AI image generation not only lends such generic visualizations of imaginary future scenarios a statistical pseudo-objectivity and a deceptive aura of neutrality, but also renders the politics employed to realize such a future invisible – by showing only results and no decisions or processes
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
AI image generation not only lends such generic visualizations of imaginary future scenarios a statistical pseudo-objectivity and a deceptive aura of neutrality, but also renders the politics employed to realize such a future invisible – by showing only results and no decisions or processes
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And it’s thus no coincidence that right-wing parties have used exactly this kind of images before in a similar manner: if your politics is all about offering imaginary solutions to mostly phantasmatic problems, generative AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
And it’s thus no coincidence that right-wing parties have used exactly this kind of images before in a similar manner: if your politics is all about offering imaginary solutions to mostly phantasmatic problems, generative AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image
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However, the problem with these images is not just their genericness. It's the deeply populist idea that politics can be reduced to its immediately visible effects: politics is not judged by how it affects people's concrete daily lives, but rather by its aesthetics—by what image it produces
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
However, the problem with these images is not just their genericness. It's the deeply populist idea that politics can be reduced to its immediately visible effects: politics is not judged by how it affects people's concrete daily lives, but rather by its aesthetics—by what image it produces
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We get to see video game-like bird's-eye views of imaginary cities outside of space & time, almost random assemblages of easily legible visual symbols, such as nuclear power plants or solar panels, each representing a political position: generic images mostly lacking coherence & plausibility
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We get to see video game-like bird's-eye views of imaginary cities outside of space & time, almost random assemblages of easily legible visual symbols, such as nuclear power plants or solar panels, each representing a political position: generic images mostly lacking coherence & plausibility
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The project assembles AI images of cityscapes supposedly representing the political programs of various parties. With their otherworldly glow and cartoonish aesthetics, all of these images have the same generic AI slop look familiar from countless LinkedIn posts and PowerPoint presentations
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October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The project assembles AI images of cityscapes supposedly representing the political programs of various parties. With their otherworldly glow and cartoonish aesthetics, all of these images have the same generic AI slop look familiar from countless LinkedIn posts and PowerPoint presentations
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I mean, let's be honest, if someone pays 24k for this, it has nothing to do with art & aesthetics and everything to do with money laundering.
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I mean, let's be honest, if someone pays 24k for this, it has nothing to do with art & aesthetics and everything to do with money laundering.
Martin Kippenberger, «Jetzt geh ich in den Birkenwald, denn meine Pillen wirken bald"», 1991
October 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Martin Kippenberger, «Jetzt geh ich in den Birkenwald, denn meine Pillen wirken bald"», 1991
If you need another reason to oppose corporate academic publishing, AI slop cover art might be one. Wonder what Marx would have said (or Hegel, for that matter) …
September 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you need another reason to oppose corporate academic publishing, AI slop cover art might be one. Wonder what Marx would have said (or Hegel, for that matter) …
KI hin oder her, mich macht vor allem der Krawattenknoten fertig
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
KI hin oder her, mich macht vor allem der Krawattenknoten fertig
«KI ist kein Fenster in die Vergangenheit, sondern ein Spiegel unserer digitalen Gegenwart.»
Das Interview ist gestern auch im gedruckten «Tagi» erschienen, herzlichen Dank an Alexandra Bröhm für das schöne Gespräch!
Das Interview ist gestern auch im gedruckten «Tagi» erschienen, herzlichen Dank an Alexandra Bröhm für das schöne Gespräch!
September 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
«KI ist kein Fenster in die Vergangenheit, sondern ein Spiegel unserer digitalen Gegenwart.»
Das Interview ist gestern auch im gedruckten «Tagi» erschienen, herzlichen Dank an Alexandra Bröhm für das schöne Gespräch!
Das Interview ist gestern auch im gedruckten «Tagi» erschienen, herzlichen Dank an Alexandra Bröhm für das schöne Gespräch!
... but nevertheless, more and more people seem to be convinced that Trump and his staff used generative AI to produce what is supposed to be an official statement from the White House. And that idea fascinates me. Again and again, Trump has spread AI slop clearly identifiable as such ...
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September 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
... but nevertheless, more and more people seem to be convinced that Trump and his staff used generative AI to produce what is supposed to be an official statement from the White House. And that idea fascinates me. Again and again, Trump has spread AI slop clearly identifiable as such ...
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There is already a lot of speculation whether Trump's video statement is possibly AI generated. And I have to admit, watching the video, it did feel odd to me too, especially the movement of the hands at around 00:19. Now that's certainly no conclusive evidence …
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September 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
There is already a lot of speculation whether Trump's video statement is possibly AI generated. And I have to admit, watching the video, it did feel odd to me too, especially the movement of the hands at around 00:19. Now that's certainly no conclusive evidence …
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This AI-generated image was debunked over a year ago, yet it still attracts thousands of likes even on this platform. I wonder — do people who like and share it actually believe it to be a genuine photograph? Or do they believe it to be true even though they know it's fake? Does it still matter?
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September 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This AI-generated image was debunked over a year ago, yet it still attracts thousands of likes even on this platform. I wonder — do people who like and share it actually believe it to be a genuine photograph? Or do they believe it to be true even though they know it's fake? Does it still matter?
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AI boosters like Blaise Agüera y Arcas will tell you that what they call «artificial intelligence» is «the next chapter of … life on Earth.»
It‘s not. It‘s the final chapter of extractivism, colonialism & concentration of capital, in a long-running story of destruction of life on this planet
It‘s not. It‘s the final chapter of extractivism, colonialism & concentration of capital, in a long-running story of destruction of life on this planet
September 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
AI boosters like Blaise Agüera y Arcas will tell you that what they call «artificial intelligence» is «the next chapter of … life on Earth.»
It‘s not. It‘s the final chapter of extractivism, colonialism & concentration of capital, in a long-running story of destruction of life on this planet
It‘s not. It‘s the final chapter of extractivism, colonialism & concentration of capital, in a long-running story of destruction of life on this planet
Gibt natürlich so viele, daher hier gleich noch mal vier mehr
September 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Gibt natürlich so viele, daher hier gleich noch mal vier mehr
Skeet a PERFECT Album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana
September 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Skeet a PERFECT Album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana
Next candidate, posted on the DHS's Insta account just a few days ago: Albert Bierstadt. It's as if someone is trying to compile a gallery of #AIslop precursors: There's a direct line running from Bierstadt via Kinkade to Midjourney …
(@nilspooker.bsky.social knows much more about this than me)
(@nilspooker.bsky.social knows much more about this than me)
September 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Next candidate, posted on the DHS's Insta account just a few days ago: Albert Bierstadt. It's as if someone is trying to compile a gallery of #AIslop precursors: There's a direct line running from Bierstadt via Kinkade to Midjourney …
(@nilspooker.bsky.social knows much more about this than me)
(@nilspooker.bsky.social knows much more about this than me)