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"John Oliver explains why you've been seeing more AI-generated content online, the harm it can do, and – sadly – why it is threatening his marriage. Do you hear us, cabbage Hulk? Stay the hell away from John's cabbage wife."
That chud claiming that most people don't enjoy the time they spend making music (as an excuse for why his AI music generator is "good")... that alone rated the "middle-finger-worthy" tag.
And I would say that all the people charging dozens to hundreds of dollars to explicitly "teach" others how to make money creating AI slop are even worse than the people creating the AI slop, except that they're the same fucking people. May they all be fucked by a sea urchin (perhaps even the same one).
In any case, it's not just silly bullshit, and it's not "just" artists having their livelihoods stolen, it's actively dangerous, as the bit about the first responders to disasters being distracted by AI dumbfuckery showed.
"And it's pretty fucking galling for the same people who spent the last decade screaming 'fake news' at any headline they didn't like to be confronted with actual fake news and suddenly being extremely open to it."
Also mentioned is the fact that people are starting to distrust real things because it might be deepfake bullshit some AI shat out, even when it actually isn't.
And the liar's dividend. (Something that Donald Trump, for one, has been benefiting from for decades, well before AI slop ever became a thing, but him claiming that real news about his bullshit is AI slop certainly doesn't help.)
"To summarize: AI slop can be somewhat lucrative for its creators, massively lucrative for the platforms that use it to drive engagement, and worryingly corrosive to the general concept of objective reality."
And at the end, spoiler alert, John Oliver unveils a real chainsaw carving, made by the guy mentioned in the video whose real life chainsaw carvings are being illegitimately replicated by AI slop, of the AI slop "purple cabbage man" that John Oliver mercilessly mocked at several points in the above embedded video (and also in the video description).
