blasé, descend. slop.A.I. “slop” can become a threat to A.I. itself. “Like a large language model, Trump takes in preëxisting work and uses it to create his own meaningless content,”

A.I. “slop” can become a threat to A.I. itself

Handwritten digits

Initial A.I. output

After 10 generations

After 20 generations

After 30 generations

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has posed a conundrum: If A.I. learns from the internet, and the internet starts containing more artificially generated content, will A.I. start ingesting its own output? Researchers I spoke to described an unintentional feedback loop that can reduce the quality and diversity of A.I.-generated content in the long run.

The New Yorker 

It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump has taken to machine-authored propaganda, using A.I. to create his ideal world. “Like a large language model, Trump takes in preëxisting work and uses it to create his own meaningless content,” Katy Waldman writes. “His taste often seems inconsistent: he-man rock, fast food, trucks, golf, mirrors, Andrew Lloyd Webber, golden bathroom fixtures, chandeliers, marble, Pepe the Frog, rocket boosters, military parades—a slurry of mass-cultural totems, wealth and status markers, and gender tells, much of it sourced from Trump’s ’80s heyday and borne along by a maximalist, self-regarding sensibility that explains the President’s political actions better than ideology ever could. The common denominator, if there is one, is obviousness. Each thing serves as the cartoonishly exaggerated marker of an identity: berserker populist patriot, effete rich man, savvy dealmaker.” Waldman writes about the A.I. emperor, who has long been waiting for his lonely, looping, ego-driven fantasia to synch up with reality: https://www.newyorker.com/....../trump-is-the-emperor......

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Neighbors in Palm Beach See an Upside to All the Clamor
A security cordon and news trucks descended on the area around the president-elect’s Florida resort, but many residents were blasé about the activity.

The modern city was transforming humans, giving them a new relationship to time and space, inculcating in them a "blasé attitude", and altering fundamental notions of freedom and being:

slop¹

/slɒp/

verb

1. 1.

   (of a liquid) spill or flow over the edge of a container, typically as a result of careless handling.

   "water slopped over the edge of the sink"

   Similar:

   spill

   flow

   overflow

   run

   slosh

   splash

   splatter

   spatter
2. 2.

   British

   dress in an untidy or casual manner.

   "at weekends he would slop about in his oldest clothes"

   Similar:

   laze (about)

   laze (around)

   lounge (about)

   lounge (around)

   do nothing

   loll (about)

   loll (around)

   loaf (about)

   loaf (around)

   slouch (about)

   slouch (around)

   vegetate

   hang around

   hang about

   veg out

   mooch about

   mooch around

   slummock around

   bum around

   bat around

   lollygag

noun

1. 1.

   waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.

   "sink slops"
2. 2.

   North American
   sentimental language or material.
   "country music is not all commercial slop"
   
   
   

descend

dɪˈsɛnd/

verb

1. 1.

   move or fall downwards.

   "the aircraft began to descend"

   synonyms:

   go down, come down; More
2. 2.

   make a sudden attack on.

   "the militia descended on Rye"

blasé

ˈblɑːzeɪ/

adjective

1. unimpressed with or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.

   "she was becoming quite blasé about the dangers"