Last Week present frontman John Oliver option AI slop successful the crosshairs successful the newest variation of the fashionable HBO show.
AI slop, for the uninitiated, is each the AI-generated imagery that’s starting to return over your feeds connected sites similar TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Pinterest. The slop tin also beryllium AI-generated videos connected YouTube, music connected platforms similar Spotify, and equal e-books, news articles, and games.
As Oliver notes successful his monologue, the maturation of strong AI-generation tools complete the past couple of years has made it easier than always to “mass food and flood assemblage media sites with cheap, professional-looking, often profoundly weird content.”
Oliver gave a fewer examples: “Images of Jesus made retired of shrimp … videos similar Barron Trump wowing the judges connected America’s Got endowment piece his dada plays data copy piano, a pug raising a babe connected a godforsaken island, or Pope Francis taking a selfie with Jesus piece flying done heaven.”
The past Week present host besides points to any deeply unusual although highly originative videos showing group transforming into assorted fruits and vegetables (6:51), with his favourite 1 showing a male changing into a reddish cabbage (yes, it’s arsenic wacky arsenic it sounds).
But the entertainment takes a much troubling bend once Oliver highlights a photograph of a male beside a forest carving of a dog (14:49). The photo, which has much than a cardinal likes, is AI-generated, and is precise close to another (real) image of a forest sculptor adjacent to a forest carving of a dog. The content is that generative-AI models are trained connected content — including existent artworks, books, music, and truthful on — scraped from the internet, and the artists whose activity has been scraped, like this forest sculptor’s efforts, are not being compensated. And worse still, the platforms web hosting machine the slop are raking successful revenue, as are any of the folks posting AI slop.
“So immoderate enjoyment you whitethorn get from weird, funny AI slop tends to beryllium undercut once you cognize that someone’s difficult activity was stolen successful purchase to develop it,” Oliver said.
In a neat decision at the extremity of the show (27:02), Oliver brings successful the forest carver, Michael Jones, to entertainment off a part of his ain activity based connected the antecedently mentioned reddish cabbage man, neatly turning the tables connected AI slop.
“I don’t person a large hole for each of this, or indeed, any of it,” Oliver said. “What one do have, though, is a petty manner to respond. Because possibly one tiny manner to acquire back astatine all the AI slop ripping disconnected artists would beryllium to develop existent art by ripping disconnected AI slop.”
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