A Shadow from the Tomb

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Essays on art, technology, and everything in the shadows between
AI Slop!

AI Slop! The Unintended Consequences of the Backlash to Generative AI

Essay · 8/21/26

Generative AI is a technical category. We are treating it as a moral one. An essay on what the backlash gets right, what it costs, and why a demand to know what's real has made it shameful to say.

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AI Nasties

AI Nasties: Male Sexuality, Moral Panic and the Art Nobody Asked You to Like

Essay · 4/22/26

This essay is historical, scientific and philosophical in roughly equal measure. It examines how the current panic over AI-generated art fits into a pattern stretching back further than most of its participants realize.

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