Memes that tie Lovecraftian imagery of formless monsters to contemporary Large Language Models. A curated collection by the one and only Bruce Sterling.
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AI and writing
Great video essay about AI and writing by josh (with parentheses).
DIY vs AI videos
Generative AI is taking over every corner of the internet. All kinds of content are imitated, replicated, remixed, and reinvented through AI. An unstoppable avalanche of images, videos, and text is submerging us.
I’ve been observing a specific reaction to this phenomenon that’s incredibly interesting: people trying to “fight” AI by attempting to recreate its content with physical objects and practical effects. I first saw this trend emerge in the field of ASMR and satisfying videos, but now people are recreating all sorts of slop. This response is giving rise to a new subgenre: a kind of artisanal content that deliberately imitates the artificial but, in doing so, emphasizes human skill and brings the craft element to the next level.”
Some great examples below.
Slop Evader
Slop Evader, a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, by Tega Brain: “this is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022“.
Infinite Reddit Image Search
Infini.wtf is a visual search engine created by a small team of indie developers. It uses AI to let you explore images, GIFs, and videos from Reddit by what’s in them, not just their titles.
Dream Recorder
The Dream Recorder AI is a device designed to transform fragmented dream recollections into replayable visual sequences: “Wake up, say your dream out loud, and watch it come to life as an ultra-low definition dreamscape“.
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Stage 5 simulacra slop
“Faced with reality’s increasing obsoletion, from generative AI, to reality TV and faux authentic brands, POSTPOSTPOST (aka Al Hassan Elwan) applies Baudrillard’s 4 stages of Simulacra and dares to manifest what lies beyond, when meaning has all but collapsed”.
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Total Pixel Space
In his short film Total Pixel Space, filmmaker and musician Jacob Adler employs generative AI to explore the nature of digital images.
Macchine Adulatrici (Sycophantic Machine)
You know that flattering, annoying tone of ChatGPT? Marco Cadioli made a video about it. It’s called “Macchine Adulatrici (Sycophantic Machine)”. The audio is composed of all the phrases the model used to “guide” the author during the creation of the video itself. If you ask me, this is definitely the romantic hit of summer 2025.
The Future Is Now Finally Weird AF
Silvia Dal Dosso‘s amazing trilogy is finally complete. And the future surely IS Weird AF.
Brainrot Video Theory
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I found a website that converts any pdf into a brainrot TikTok style video: memenome.gg. This was originally an academic essay discussing the meaning and usage of the word “art”. I don’t really have any comment to add, except that this is the AI art we need (and probably deserve).
Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?)
Ana Min Wein (Where am I From)? is a short movie by Nouf Aljowaysir, where she talks about her origins and identity while in conversation with an AI program. A beautiful meditate on identity, migration, and memory.
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Trisha Code. You can’t stop her
That’s what generative AI should be about.
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I laughed, I cried, It became a part of me
I struggle to find the words to describe this. I’ll just copy-paste one of the comments below the video: “I laughed, I cried, It became a part of me.”
Generative AI is shaping reality
AI generates images of non-existent stuff all the time. But people want stuff, so they order it, and those images turn into reality. Welcome to the era of AI-assisted e-commerce aka AI-shaped reality.
[Having taken orders, Chinese factory must actually make massive AI slop gorilla sofas]
Virtual creatures evolving
I’m literally mesmerized by Karl Sims‘ digital creatures.
500,000 JPGs and no plans
Video and music by Eryk Salvaggio, inspired by a Reddit post.
I’ve got 20,000 jpgs and no plans
I’ve 30,000 jpgs and no ideas
for what to do with them
I’ve got 40,000 jpgs on a hard drive
what do you guys do with all these pictures
The First Artificial Intelligence Coloring Book
Harold Cohen, Becky Cohen, Penny Nii, The First Artificial Intelligence Coloring Book, 1984. Read the foreword here.
The Quasi Robots
In 2008 Nicolas Anatol Baginski made the “Quasi Robots” a a family of autonomous, disabled machines that are design to provoke emotional response. Probably the weirdest piece of robotic/ai art I’ve ever encountered.
Found in Translation
Eric Drass, aka Shardcore, made this very interesting experiment with generative AI applications: “I arranged a form of Chinese-Whispers between AI systems. I first extracted the keyframes from a scene from American Psycho and asked a multimodal LLM (LLaVA) to describe what it saw. I then took these descriptions and used them as prompts for a Stable Diffusion image generator. Finally I passed these images on to Stable-Video-Diffusion to turn the stills into motion.”
Voice In My Head
Kyle McDonald & Lauren Lee McCarthy developed an AI system that can replace your internal monologue:
“With the proliferation of generated content, AI now seeps constantly into our consciousness. What happens when it begins to intervene directly into your thoughts? Where the people you interact with, the things you do, are guided by an AI enhanced voice that speaks to you the way you’d like to be spoken to.”
One World Moments
“One World Moments is a new experiment in ambient media, which seeks to use the new possibilities enabled by AI image generation to create more specific, evocative, and artistic ambient visuals than have been previously possible on a mass scale.”
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Entropophone
In the work “Entropophone | La qualité de l’air” by artist Filipe Vilas-Boas, the anonymous video stream of a surveillance camera is transformed into a musical score.
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The Wizard of AI
Alan Warburton did it again.
“The Wizard of AI,’ a 20-minute video essay about the cultural impacts of generative AI. It was produced over three weeks at the end of October 2023, one year after the release of the infamous Midjourney v4, which the artist treats as “gamechanger” for visual cultures and creative economies. According to the artist, the video itself is ‘99% AI’ and was produced using generative AI tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Runway and Pika. Yet the artist is careful to temper the hype of these new tools, or as he says, to give in to the ‘wonder-panic’ brought about by generative AI. Using creative workflows unthinkable before October 2023, he takes us on a colourful journey behind the curtain of AI – through Oz, pink slime, Kanye’s ‘Futch’ and a deep sea dredge – to explain and critique the legal, aesthetic and ethical problems engendered by AI-automated platforms. Most importantly, he focusses on the real impacts this disruptive wave of technology continues to have on artists and designers around the world.”