{"id":15454,"date":"2025-05-02T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15454"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T12:40:00","slug":"generative-ai-art-the-ultimate-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15454","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI art &#8211; the ultimate comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photograph below showed up in your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s social media feed today and is the best comment he has seen to date in respect of the so-called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AI_slop\"><em>AI slop<\/em><\/a>&#8221; (<em>or just plain &#8220;slop&#8221;. Ed.<\/em>) produced by generative AI engines.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/05\/art.jpg\" alt=\"Message reads Say no to generative AI art. Buy art from a real degenerate.\" width=\"416\" height=\"554\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/05\/art.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/05\/art-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>However, your &#8216;umble scribe is not the only person who questions the utility of generative AI, let alone its accuracy and\/or faithfulness. Here&#8217;s the historian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dan_Snow\">Dan Snow<\/a> of History Hit clearly suffering from the output of generative AI in respect of great events in world history Whoever would have guessed the USA had ships in the thick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Trafalgar\">Battle of Trafalgar<\/a>? :-D.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_53888\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IXoi1qo9lqY?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Historian Reacts to AI Generated Images Of History&#039;s Biggest Moments\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photograph below showed up in your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s social media feed today and is the best comment he has seen to date in respect of the so-called &#8220;AI slop&#8221; (or just plain &#8220;slop&#8221;. Ed.) produced by generative AI engines. However, your &#8216;umble scribe is not the only person who questions the utility of generative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34,9],"tags":[49,35,23],"class_list":["post-15454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-ai","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15454"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15476,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions\/15476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}