While #PlatformRealism is not necessarily fascist, it lends itself to fascist worldbuilding, for it allows one to naturalize phantasmatic chains of equivalence. In this fantasy, communism, Islam, queer pride, and migration all signify the same thing: a chaos threatening order and stability

In this respect, a #slopaganda image like this is a condensed version of a social media feed. It makes its point through redundancy. It's not only that AI models are trained on platform content; the visual worlds they generate are shaped by platform logics. This is what I call #PlatformRealism

Stock aesthetics is the default mode of #PlatformRealism, and the centered, vignette-like composition a standard it reproduces persistently; the bow, finally, bends the wrong way. The model knows what a drawn bow looks like, but not what makes it curve: it reproduces looks without physics

«A nauseating, nightmarish quality defines A.I.’s insectified interpretation of human cuisine, as if food were just another surrealist goo to stochastically iterate upon. …These images violate science; they mock life itself.» #Slop #PlatformRealism www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...