AI & Technology · · 2 min read
AI Slop: We Are Burning the Rainforest to Print Digital Junk
We have built the most advanced computational infrastructure in human history—trillion-dollar networks of supercomputers, sub-sea fiber optics and Starlink satellites. And what are we doing with this marvel of engineering?
Originally published on LinkedIn ↗
We are using it to generate infinite videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti.
Welcome to the era of AI slop, where we burn premium electricity to manufacture content that erodes our cognitive abilities like a degenerative disease. But at least it’s destroying the hardware market in the process!
Let’s look at the "Value" Proposition:
- One "Viral" AI Image: Generates enough heat to charge your smartphone from 0% to 100%. Was that picture of a cat in a spacesuit worth it? Absolutely. Who needs battery life when you have six-fingered astronauts?
- 10 Seconds of AI Video: Consumes the same energy as running your microwave for an hour. We are quite literally cooking the planet so a bot account can get 12 views on a video of a morphing cloud.
The Economic Miracle (For Nvidia):
- The GPU "Shortage": Are you a startup trying to cure cancer or solve climate change? Take a number. You are currently in line behind a clickbait farm in a basement that needs 500 H100s to flood Facebook with "Amen" posts.
- The Storage "Strategy": We are currently building data centers faster than we can build housing, all to store petabytes of hallucinated garbage that will never be opened again. It’s not "Big Data." It’s a digital landfill.
- The "Slop Tax": Why is your cloud bill going up? Why are laptops getting expensive? Because we are forcing supply chains to accommodate an infinite demand for nonsense.