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Food for Thought: AI Slop vs. Curated AI
While corporate overuse and low-effort volume have flooded the internet with soulless “AI slop,” the fundamental issue lies not in the technology itself, but in how it is applied. Much like the typewriter, Photoshop, or social media before it, AI is simply a tool that amplifies human intent: passive execution yields junk, whereas deliberate human leverage—defined by intentional prompting, domain expertise, creative vision, and rigorous editing—produces meaningful work. When guided by a craftsman’s mindset, AI does not replace human ingenuity; instead, it acts as a collaborative partner that handles technical heavy lifting, bridging skill gaps and expanding creative boundaries without sacrificing the soul of the final product.
Hazards of Virtualization: Abjectification and Immersion in Cyberpunk 2077
Through understanding the process of postmodernity as a transitionary period, this paper explores the representation of the postmodern identity crisis within CD Projekt Red’s video game Cyberpunk 2077. It is contrasted with Heiner Müller’s drama Hamletmachine, through the theory of the semiotics of the subject. Focusing on Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject, the analysis examines how these works reflect on their respective cultural paradigm shifts and represent the changing tendencies regarding the constitution of the socially positioned human subject. Hamletmachine establishes Hamlet as a self-conflicting subject within a postmodern framework and introduces the machine as an abject entity, while Cyberpunk 2077 immerses players in an interactive narrative that challenges their socially defined subject positions.
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