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Anthropocentric Bias
The phenomenon where humans inherently overvalue things simply because a human made them—or demand more human control over AI media—is called the anthropocentric bias.
Related is The Labor Illusion (Effort Justification) - a cognitive bias where humans equate visible effort with quality and value - and the The IKEA Effect - a behavioral economic principle where consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created or assembled themselves.
All coupled with Algorithm Aversion - The documented tendency for humans to deeply mistrust and over-scrutinise automated systems, even when those systems demonstrably outperform human capabilities.
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120 years of cinema, 5,000 years of science, and the birth of super-intelligent AI...Only for us to scroll past art to watch brain-rotting slop that targets our oldest evolutionary instincts. As E.O. Wilson said: “We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions.”
“To slop, or not to slop, that is the question” - William Slopspeare
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AI-generated books are on the rise. The slop-ification of culture accelerates.
The Economist: AI has pushed the internet’s content machine into a new phase, with books, lawsuits, research papers, apps, and songs now being produced at volumes that old review systems were not built to handle.
Amazon e-book releases rose from about 100,000 a month before ChatGPT-3.5 to roughly 300,000 by late 2025, and detection tools suggest AI-generated text drove much of that jump.
US self-filed civil lawsuits doubled to 41,000 from 2023 to 2025, with 18% of sampled 2026 complaints flagged as AI-written, yet their success rate did not fall.
Research is seeing the same pressure, as arXiv submissions keep rising, rejection rates have more than doubled since 2023, and one study found 57% of 2025 papers carried AI-influenced language, up from 12% in 2023.
Coding agents have also changed software output, with new iOS App Store releases now above 100,000 a month after sitting below 50,000 last May.
In Music production, 75,000 AI songs are arriving daily, up from 10,000, while 44% of new uploads are AI-made and 97% of listeners in one survey could not reliably tell the difference.
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Synthetic Solipsism
Source: Talk: MIT Media Lab: David Rudnick - Context - #Generative #Media #Business
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Marshall McLuhan noted that the content of any new medium is always an older medium—like early cinema merely filming theater. Today, AI cinema is trapped in that exact same loop, emulating traditional filmmaking structures before it inevitably discovers its own native form.
