Oct 23, 2026, 2:20 AMAn article on Aftermath about how depressing AI slop has made emulation and decompilation projects, and crushed existing communities https://aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbies-in-software-emulation/
And hey, it links to me and @glyph's blogposts
(Thx for the heads up @mostol)
Oct 23, 2026, 7:05 AM
@cwebber @glyph @mostol Slop evangelists don't care about community, any more than they do human creatively, they either want the endorphin rush that comes from internet points given by people who don't know how damaging what they're doing is, or to help install the AI tollbooth in another place that it is neither wanted or welcome.
They're leaving the internet a wasteland, with small tightly walled off communities that aren't visible from the outside, surrounded by ghost towns and the desert of Reddit, centralised Socials and Discord, where bots will tell at oneanother and scrape the responses forever more.
@cwebber "so much viral hyperbole about what these things are capable of that is often followed by a sobering and less sexy reality"
@cwebber @glyph @mostol Suddenly that line from Mikey whatsisface behind Suno takes on a whole new meaning.
"Nobody actually enjoys the hard work of learning to play an intrument" wasn't an observation, but a mission statement. He's here to suck all the joy out of it, and the same applies to every other pursuit under attack by genAI.
Oct 24, 2026, 12:36 AM
“Perhaps I should not fetishize labor like that” and then the rest of the article proceeds to do that. I don’t have a problem with it, but there is some cognitive dissonance going on here.