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Response paper critiques AI slop's socio-technical context, highlighting its significance in future research.
This is a response to the paper “Why Slop Matters”. By offering both immanent and external critique, we argue that the authors’ reasoning neglects the socio-technical context of AI slop. Our paper presents an ethical and social science informed response that centers the debate on the social function and aesthetic value of AI slop. We conclude that AI slop is an important research subject but call for a contextual and culturally-grounded debate on the issue. To that end, we discuss some key elements of an agenda for future research on the phenomenon of AI slop.
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