AI Slopaganda feat. Ryan Broderick (E319)

And once again, here we are talking about millennials and boomers and just ignoring the existence of gen xers . We're ok, we're used to being left alone.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

The AI- corn syrup analogy is so spot on. Their analogies/metaphors are the best (including this is not that)

Cash (and most good country) and King of the Hill are not conservative

I think you meant Toby Keith not Johnny Cash you hack

No mention of Electric Dreams?

I don’t think Johnny Cash was particularly conservative especially by today’s standards

King of the Hill has, to me, been a hilarious satire of what small town life is like. All of the characters have glaring flaws while being "the good guy". I've never thought it was conservative art and I watch the series like once a year! Maybe I'm giving the writers too much credit and I misunderstood it lol

AI is like when my Nan tells me about her dream last night

ROMANIA MENTIONED

You guys should watch ‘Companion’ the new A24 movie. Ai/robotic romantic companions and the horrors they…well, not gonna spoil the ending. Also, streaming should be illegal.

Julian referencing JAB comics is chef’s kiss

Ryan is the best

all hail shrimp jesus

Had to look up "Shrimp Jesus" and see for myself, which brought me to an explainer in...Forbes...

I really disagree with the take "Everyone uses AI, but people claim they hate it." AI as a term is basically useless. Recommendation algorithms, image denoising and your AI generated disney porn are different technologies. AI is a marketing term because the actual descriptions of these tachnologies are meaningless to people and corporations want to sell a rice cooker as having AI. When people say they have AI, they mean generative AI or they mean the relentless marketing push.

Achilles did chop the head off an all gold statue of Apollo at Troy. So I assume we all can grind up gold.

Isn't the AI prompt for Soon Shrimp Jesus just someone misspelling of "Christian" for "Crustacean"

So, coincidentally, I've been rewatching King of the Hill recently and pondering its conservative legacy and pop cultural status. My reaffirmed opinion is that it's 100% a conservative satire and still a lovely & wholesome show. By today's conservative standards it is downright idyllic & quaint, I tell ya what.

Terrifying. Must read article for you guys in Guardian by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor today - The Rise of End Times Fascism

Carcinization comes for us all, even Jesus

The "Elon Musk Saves a Child" one feels like it could really have been made on his behalf. I'm dreading the day he starts offering homeless people rooms in exchange for volunteering as Neuralink trial subjects, or tries to get it approved as a court-ordered treatment for "The Woke Mind Virus."

beautiful cabin crew

Huge thanks for the links in the show notes, this episode especially. I'm trying to retrain myself to have an adult human attention span and these all look like great reads.

Toxic positivity. Julian’s been studying Byung-Chul Han.

"I'm so glad I don't have Facebook." Lucky bastard. AHHHH Should I delete?

Rick Steves > Emma

Shotgunning the algorithm is extremely prevalent on tiktok, it's just a very high effort form of shotgunning the algorithm, you can find accounts with very little engagement doing the same dance in different outfits with the same camera setup for like six videos in a row, it seems like a really discouraging and heartless way to try and make something for other people to enjoy

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Fascinating conversation, Guys.

AI mad cow disease. Perfect. Someone call Ed Zitron for a new phrase

I have made a revolutionary switch from social media to email to keep in touch with my friends that I don’t regularly text and it has made life SO much sweeter

"during the pandemic" mentioned

You should read “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” by Clement Greenberg. Replace kitsch with AI art, and it’s the same thing all over again.

Screamers is a PKD story

Why does that German AI influencer sound exactly like Annie Kelly?

It’s been awhile, but the last time I checked, my whole Facebook was just toxic positivity ransom letters

Jake: crab jesus was immediately accepted by the Chaos Magic community, as I’m sure you already know. (I spell magic without a k because f crowley)

This guy's funny and I like the vibe. But it's pretty ironic for the guy famous for plagerising half his content is whiny about this. Plagerism is the OG AI slop.

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We are currently experiencing a zionist version of the red scare. Unlike the first 2 it's very unpopular. You guys seriously have to cover this. Who is using more disinformation then israel? Why are the elites in both parties zionist fanatics willing to sacrifice elections for a foreign country? Also, the MSM has become a new version of qanon. Cnn has actual idf military censors who edit all the news. This genocide caused biden to lose the election let's not get that twisted. u guys are on team schumer: you are cool with ppl getting kidnapped as long as they don't support a genocide. That's an extremely important topic. We should also address why ex mossad agents are running entire uni. Departments throughout the country. I've been waiting guys. We can not just ignore this.

It's been 18 months since the genocide began. Are we ever going to touch on how ridiculous the msm is now? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2z103nqxo Look at that article title. Video evidence "appears to contradict " is this an onion article?! We gotta get an episode about this guys. Zionism and qanon are linked at the hip like siamese twins

I feel like Travis sitting alone in a room writing 3 AI prompts to podcast with sounds like a Jake story.

I fucking hate AI. Thanks for the kisses Julian. 😁

love a travis episode 🫶

Good episode. For most of modern history, a substantial portion of the artistic avant-garde were right-wing, including many of the early 20th century modernists who sympathized with fascism and related movements- Pound, Celine, Marinetti, Eliot etc etc I think Ryan had it right that the contemporary right’s embrace of capitalism goes a long way towards explaining their turn against art. I’d add- no matter how violent and nihilistic, the right from Reagan’s day on always goes back to treacle, nostalgia, Hollywood endings, etc… when you have mass shooters pining for the 2020s version of the eighties version of the fifties… sentimentality and art don’t go together.

5’8” checking in to say fuck you Ben but thanks for coming lmao great ep even for normies

I’d definitely listen to a podcast of Jake just reading musk simp tweets in a variety of creepy voices.

Oh screamers! It has a sequel too. A bad one

I saw an AI one that was like "Poor African boy singings song to his dead mom" on X factor or whatever but like... he looks like the pictures of starving kids in Unicef ads. He's almost naked, deathly emaciated so I guess we're supposed to believe he's in the US on a tv show and still nobody's given him any food or clothes and everyone's like "Wow! So beautiful! He loves his dead mom!"

You're telling me a shrimp crucifried this rice?

Total Recall presaged the usage of "demure" in the current moment

My favorite Jon McNaughton painting: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/bg0ib6/one_nation_under_cthulhu_artist_unknown/

Johnny Cash was an incredibly empathetic artist, held many progressive beliefs, and stood up for racial and class injustices when it would have been far easier and even excused to do otherwise. And I wouldn’t call King of the Hill a conservative show in the least; it’s one of the most quietly progressive shows in the history of TV. It rarely mocks or caricatures its characters, and often satirizes conservative behavior. Its subtlety and the fact that a surface-level analysis of it suggests an intended conservatism shows how brilliant the writing is.

King of the Hill is created by Mike Judge (Idiocracy, Silicon Valley, etc) does not strike me as particularly conservative...

Jake Rockatansky

Drop a link to the hypnotic gold mashing vid kings

Annie Kelly why not

I was duped by the video of the Lebanese guy speaking English with an Irish accent 😅

I see a TON of pro-Elon AI slop on my FB, all very similar. Over half the slop, I'd say.

Screamers is based off an Asimov short story. A real dark one, for him.

Screamers is based on a Philip K. Dick story.

Screamers traumatised me as a child. Days and days of nightmares. Thanks for the reminder

Julian!!

Liv AGAR

Ayyo just wanted to Liv AGAR before even listening to this pod.

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