Slop Takes Over My Social Media Feed. I Don’t Hate It

I’m not sure what everyone else’s social media feeds are looking like these days, but over the past 72 hours mine has become unrecognizable to me. On TikTok, I’ve been inundated with short clips of slap-boxing competitions between Fred Rogers and Kurt Cobain, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, and Elvis Presley and Bob Marley. I’ve watched indie rocker Elliott Smith dunking a basketball in a Portland Trail Blazers uniform while someone who sounds like Mike Breen, ESPN’s NBA play-by-play commentator, gushes about Smith’s athletic prowess. And I’ve witnessed Martin Luther King Jr. deejaying a Boiler Room set in a London dance club. 

Yes, I’ve fallen deep into an artificial intelligence slop hole this week, and I can’t get out.