On 1/17/2026 6:30 AM, Jerry Brown wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:49:50 -0800, Aka Ben <bar8641@gmail.com> wrote:

weberm@polaris.net wrote:

I got thinking about AI content and specifically, you know, how we can
complain about how it's used to take existing content as training data and >>> produce something new from it, remixing and iterating from human-made content
that went before and then churning out an impressive but derivative and
unoriginal work. And it's become known as slop because it feels very false, >>> inauthentic and machineered without any real creativity, innovation, soul or
human imagination behind it. It is soulless. It is empty. But in a sense, AI
video and AI art is merely a more efficient and powerful tool to accomplish >>> what Hollywood has been doing for years, far longer than AI has even existed,
which is to produce bland, uninspiring, repetitive, and unoriginal content >>> over and over, churning out a steady assembly line of sequels, reboots,
prequels, and reimaginings of movies, TV shows, those cartoons and comic >>> books that went before for decades.

https://youtu.be/PNTHlAn6AyU?si=gpJOjSIVTPgBvjmJ

"I swallowed my combadge" <- Actual line from the show that tells you all you need to know.

Ubi's reviews gave me such low expectations that I actually ended up

It's not his review, he actually reposted it from somewhere else.

quite enjoying it. It reminded me of Prodigy, which also grew on me
after a shaky start.

I didn't think it was that bad either.

My main beef was the wall of Star Fleet Heroes, on which I couldn't
find Captain Lorca - supposedly one the greatest of his time, but lost
in the Mirrorverse with only his counterpart to sully his record, and
not considered worth mounting a rescue mission for on the grounds that
he was "probably" dead.

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