Not AI slop, just I slop

Well, you aren't entirely wrong...

• AI uses already existing data to create "new" data / Dreams uses things you experience throughout your life to create the scenes you see

• Both are imperfect facsimiles of reality, very convincing at first but falls flat with a more detailed analysis

• AI tends to hallucinate / dreams tends to be really weird

• Places have no sense of permanence in dreams nor in AI.

• some may argue dreams have no real meaning or purpose, it isn't a coherent narrative, just like AI.

Of course, it isn't a 1:1 relation, but I kinda dig it.

I don't get why this had -25 net upvotes before I gave it an upvote to balance it, I think it's a good shower thought and thinking of AI slop as similar to dreams is genuinely not something I'd thought of before.

The big difference is that I often enjoy my dreams.

This is only true if the A in AI stands for ACTUAL intelligence.

Back when LLM/AI was fairly nascent in the public eye and largely relegated to image generation, I had a real off character come into my computer repair shop wanting to ask questions about it but not knowing what to call it.

He wound up describing it as “you know, when they make the computers dream”

Not really the same. Some dreams, the more vivid kind can have smells or feelings. Like the one I had yesterday in which I had cat ears, whiskers, and a tail, and also curiously enough, horns as well. I could run my finger along them and feel the texture in them as well as the warmth in the horns. It was weird.

AI doesn't have smells, feeling, or textures, or if it did it can't really give it to you. Only sights and sounds. So they aren't really the same. Dreams can come in all 5 senses, AI can only channel through 2. Usually just 1.

I’d argue the opposite. AI cannot dream, it can only shuffle around things that already existed before, while dreams are our brains actually being creative.

dreams have always been propped up by the porn industry.

AI = ACTUAL IMAGINATION