Kate Crawford on AI slop | Long Now Talks @longnow
Kate Crawford on AI slop | Long Now Talks  @longnow
Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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In her Long Now Talk, Kate Crawford argues that AI slop has created a new metabolic rift: massive data collection that acts like poor nutrition at planetary scale. But this is something we’ve seen before (and can learn from), dating back to the 1500s.
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