Paper Report Live: Special Slop Edition

The Never Post staff meet to discuss four academic papers on how the internet is getting worse, each from a special edition of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. How is slop like gelatin? In many more ways that you might immediately assume! Tune in to hear about them all!

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Brainrot, AI slop, and the enshittification of the Internet

Intro

Georgia, Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop

Hans, Feed them slop: Alignment, attunement, and the affective lure of slopaganda