I think you missed a trick by not including the cinematic debut of the real next step in AI food, the ‘man-made chickens’ in David Lynch’s 1977 film “Eraserhead”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JamnCWXNsPs
This all reminds me of Baudrillard, talking about the difference between Simulation and Representation.
AI slop does not attempt to represent the food you will receive. It is a pure Simulation. It’s verisimilitude is irrelevant. Much like the AI Minecraft McFlurry - the fact that the ice cream bears no relation to the picture is almost the point - we are meant to care about the concepts and the conflation of them. But only at a surface level. The picture is to the McFlurry what the McFlurry is to “real” food.
I read and share this seasonal article about Baudrillard and Pumpkin Spice annually as we plough through the information crisis that is the enshittoscene
I think you missed a trick by not including the cinematic debut of the real next step in AI food, the ‘man-made chickens’ in David Lynch’s 1977 film “Eraserhead”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JamnCWXNsPs
This all reminds me of Baudrillard, talking about the difference between Simulation and Representation.
AI slop does not attempt to represent the food you will receive. It is a pure Simulation. It’s verisimilitude is irrelevant. Much like the AI Minecraft McFlurry - the fact that the ice cream bears no relation to the picture is almost the point - we are meant to care about the concepts and the conflation of them. But only at a surface level. The picture is to the McFlurry what the McFlurry is to “real” food.
I read and share this seasonal article about Baudrillard and Pumpkin Spice annually as we plough through the information crisis that is the enshittoscene
http://www.critical-theory.com/understanding-jean-baudrillard-with-pumpkin-spice-lattes/
It’s relevant here.