Google's AI-Generated Content Looks a Lot Like Slop to Me

"What in the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was that?" I muttered under my breath. Google had just shown a demo of a film it had made using its own AI video generation software Flow, in which a grandfather was trying to invent a flying car with the help of a giant chicken. It was, as told by the presenter of the I/O keynote, "pretty awesome." It's not the word I would have chosen. This was a familiar pattern I noticed throughout Tuesday's event. Google would show us an example of its content generation tools in action and then tell us how amazing and magical the results were. But what I was seeing with my own eyes was neither amazing nor magical. It looked to me a lot like AI slop. Its artistic merit cannot go unchallenged. James Martin/CNET AI slop, for those unfamiliar with the term, is low-quality, aesthetically unappealing content that has been generated by AI. Once you become familiar with the tells of the majority of AI-generated visual media, you can't unsee them. There's something ... Read full article.