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AI-generated "slop genre" replaces backgrounds in comedy clips

A Mastodon user encountered AI-generated content that awkwardly replaced the background of Patton Oswalt's comedy clips with astronomy pictures and added splashy thumbnails. The user expressed strong negative sentiment towards this new "AI slop genre," wishing pain and death upon its creators. AI

RANK_REASON User-generated content on a social platform discussing AI-generated content, with no new information or significant impact.

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AI-generated "slop genre" replaces backgrounds in comedy clips

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    RE: https:// gram.social/p/Alice/1023616362 562452333 I was gonna say that whenever I hear "Denny's", I think of Patton Oswalt's bit about the period in their s

    RE: https:// gram.social/p/Alice/1023616362 562452333 I was gonna say that whenever I hear "Denny's", I think of Patton Oswalt's bit about the period in their slogan - but then I went to YT to see if the clip was there & hoo boy, new AI slop genre just dropped (on me)... Seems as…