LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
The episode of Better Offline features Ed Zitron, Caleb Wilson of Kill the Computer, and Arif Hassan of White Left dissecting the academic paper Why Slop Matters, which defends AI-generated content ("slop") as culturally and aesthetically valuable. The hosts reject this framing, a
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