Am I Slop? Am I Agentic? Am I Earth?
7 hours ago
- #AI
- #Identity
- #Neural Media
- AI challenges and augments humanity, raising questions about intelligence computation, labor automation, ownership, and societal impact.
- Neural media, a new category including AI and brain-computer interfaces, influences identity and subjectivity through feedback loops.
- Media types evolve in 30-year phases, with neural media now halfway through its maturation cycle, remaining malleable.
- AI perceives and reflects human users through statistical distributions, shaping identities as embeddings in a latent space.
- Daily life dimensions are determined by one's position in AI's latent space, influencing self-perception and material consequences.
- Cultural examples show statistical self-identification, such as dating app percentiles and social media metrics.
- The bell curve symbolizes normal distribution, used in various fields but also misused for racist ideologies.
- The term 'mid' describes mediocrity, originating from cannabis grades and now applied to AI-generated 'slop' content.
- AI slop is default, bland content generated at the mean of statistical distributions, lacking specificity or resonance.
- Generative image systems evolve from chaos to photorealism, with errors persisting in low-cost models used by spambots.
- Slopbots target wide audiences, distilling sentiment and ideology into manipulative, subliminal content.
- Human agency in neural media involves resisting or recontextualizing embedded identities, with AI agents potentially automating agency.
- Earth-oriented AI models enable planetary-scale perception, offering non-human latent spaces for embedded identity.
- Multispecies latent spaces provide a broader perspective, highlighting ecological interdependence and coordination challenges.