There's a DS9 episode where Quark tries to trick Kira into being scanned because one of his customers wants a custom pornographic holoprogram of her, which really isn't far off from all the creep shit people try to use AI for.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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what's cool about the holodeck is it's a physical place you can enter and leave when you want, whereas there seems to be no escape from slop
Weirdly enough, I tailor the feck out if my browsing experience with lots of Firefox extensions, so I'm hardly ever exposed to it. But yes you're right.
What extensions do you recommend (besides ublock)
AI Overview Blocker for Google, Blue Blocker (for Twitter, a bit hard to install), uBlacklist.
I try to use RSS more too, and avoid socials sites that aren't Hexbear.
The ~~Capitalists~~ slop machines will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
Edit: Slop machine's rope suggestion didn't work, but blocking element with ublock did
There are addons that will filter most AI sites from image searches.
I do love how in TNG the programs were like "I want to be Sherlock Holmes" or "I want to do Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' with perfect special effects" and in DS9 it's literally "Vulcan Love Slave Part 3"
Bortus straight-up making custom porn programs in the simulator on The Orville is the most obvious natural progression of this
With Riker on board, they probably had to set the holodeck to "PG" as a precaution.
I'm sure there are nods to him using it for fucking. There's a really funny, "I'll be on the holodeck" line when he's clearly sexually frustrated
I see AI generated art going down the same path as like mass-produced food products. Unhealthy, low quality, cheap, slop. But people still cook their own food, or go to eat what chefs make no matter how easy it is to buy a fast food meal or a bag of chips. Same way people still like to buy hand crafted items when they can over something made in a factory.
Just like how until recently a lot of people ate fast food without questioning it, but then suddenly a few decades ago a lot more people started caring about the health effects. I think we are in the period now where people don't think about the consequences of consuming so much AI stuff.
Holodeck is their version of VR.
I guess but it seems like very often they put a lot of emphasis on the "program" creation aspect. AI slop as it exists today is the opposite no?
I think of both extremes where the holodeck is a combination of being so extremely detailed you can spend years on a program and also supposedly extremely "slop" like where you can just say "computer create X" and it just does so.
The current AI slop is very much the latter part of this, specialy given how little control you have and if you do end up having to integrate AI art or whatever into some bigger project then it is borderline not saving any time at all.
At the current stage, you do not get exponentialy or even lineraly better results by spending more of your own time messing with AI models, LORAs etc.
So yeah I guess, maybe you may as well say that the replicator is just actualy good "fast food".
That's just your limited view and experience with AI. You can integrate various forms of AI into your artistic workflow, enhancing your digital art just like any other brush in GIMP or Krita.
The tools are just tools. Waging holy wars on it is completely stupid. Please read theory on proletarianization and understand where this is all going.
counterpoint: the idea that tom paris is a prompt engineer is very funny