This Machine Kills

403. Perpetual Slop Machine

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Apr 29, 2025
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INSIGHT

Internet as a Slop World

  • The internet has become a "slop world," overwhelmed with endless, low-value AI-generated content.
  • This results in an online space hostile to human presence and meaningful interaction.
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Capitalism Drives Internet Decay

  • The digital economy prioritizes profit and attention extraction over genuine, pro-social human interaction.
  • Capitalist technology deliberately undermines harmonious social relations, making internet rot a feature, not a bug.
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Perpetual Value Machine Explained

  • The quest for a perpetual value machine drives AI to replace human content producers and consumers.
  • This leads to a cycle of degrading value with AI endlessly producing and consuming content without creating new value.
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