AI slop was the dystopia novelists never saw coming, says viral Orwell '1984' parallel
serrjoa · x · 2026-09-06
A cultural observation making the rounds: quoting 1984's "versificator" — the machine churning out cheap novels and sentimental songs to keep the proles sedated — one poster notes that while science fiction exhaustively warned of superintelligence, almost no novelist foresaw today's endless flood of "AI slop."
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