slop

I think a lot of talk about AI aesthetics tends to center around slop, and to me a lot of slop discourse is just a failure of imagination, or just a misunderstanding of what this kind of technology or force enables, which is this ability to explore latent spaces.

Peter Bauman, AI Psychosis Summit: Macy Gettles, quasimatt

With the character modeling software, you would see something called "poke-through," where polygons collide and disappear into each other. In AI, it's the slop aesthetic. So I trained the model to produce very sloppy imagery, very recognizable, low-fidelity AI aesthetics.

Avery Singer, Avery Singer on the Dopamine Blowout