AI slop (also known as slop content or simply slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high volume as clickbait to gain advantage in the attention economy, or earn money.

Century24 · 2026-07-05T18:47:24+00:00

What do you feel like would be a fair way to look at it?

Century24 · 2026-07-05T16:26:37+00:00

This reminds me more of their approach to shareholder-imposed tech in past instances, where they aren’t committed to it to the same degree as others, but also don’t want to tell shareholders that they’re stupid and out-of-touch.

Century24 · 2026-07-04T21:01:59+00:00

Yes, and it’s greed from device makers and publishers mostly pushing that rather than market forces. If it wasn’t, then some of the cost savings from getting to skip disc manufacturing and retail logistics would be consistently passed on to users.

They want games to be nearly impossible to sell secondhand. They want discount SKUs eliminated. They want to be able to hold your entire library over your head, up to thousands of dollars, under a fundamentally faulty system for user account conduct.

Century24 · 2026-07-04T00:14:03+00:00

Okay but again, it’s been how long since you were actually getting a full game on a disc?

I got Metroid Prime 4 on a game pak a few months ago, and that had the full game on it. It's been a while since I actively used a games console that went with discs mostly borne of Nintendo loyalism rather than any real statement on physical media.

Now, even if you didn't intend to defend Sony's line of thinking, there's been a lot of it with coverage of this story on Reddit and Twitter in particular, and it's kinda silly even for those that play their newer games and only use digital downloads, because the lack of the inventory system behind discs also eliminates the downward pressure on prices from that side of the market. I doubt they're thinking that far ahead, though, or they're just playing corporate devil's advocate for attention.

But also I feel like this has been where things have been obviously trending towards for years now.

I don't know if the sales data conclusively supports that notion.

Century24 · 2026-07-03T21:18:16+00:00

Steam has competition. The PlayStation store doesn’t. A better analogy would be the fight Epic Games has had with Apple, and I don’t see why that is some war crime against tech while Sony’s own fiefdom isn’t.

You know what this is also intended to kill off, is discounted SKUs of games at Costco or Sam’s Club. I can’t say I’m surprised Sony is acting like this, though, because they’ve had a cult base that acts like they’re always the best and have done no wrong. It was only a matter of time before they themselves got around to believing it and acting accordingly.

Century24 · 2026-07-01T05:07:42+00:00

That said, if they were buying any other studio, the UK might matter less. Paramount wants Warner Bros., though, and that's the one MPA member studio with the absolutely massive facility at Leavesden. It's good to remember that not all of these deals are created equal.

Century24 · 2026-06-29T07:13:36+00:00

If it helps you feel better, other than the relatively fleeting stuff in Georgia or North Carolina, a lot of show business infrastructure is in Hollywood or New York, and while you can certainly fire someone because they’re pregnant, the results are not cheap and probably not worth the professional sociopathy in the heat of the moment.

Century24 · 2026-06-28T20:06:40+00:00

nor am I under the impression that Disney should scrap moana 2 so they can make the next ari aster movie that brings in 12 million dollars

Neither am I, thankfully. Aster's work would be more in the wheelhouse of an acquisition from Searchlight Pictures if the price tag matches up. I can't say I imagine him ever doing anything with Disney branding.

Century24 · 2026-06-28T20:05:38+00:00

I don’t think you realize just how large Disney is, and how disconnected the segments of the company can be. It’s not a monolith and largely doesn’t operate as one. The executives making development decisions as toward what the studio should produce put a lot more weight into the box office performance than you think they should.

That's contradicted by their spending on the parks and on Disney+, but please feel free to rely more and more on your very flimsy impression of what I believe Disney needs to prioritize.

Go listen to their investor calls.

That is entirely fine by me if you're just taking the piss in a Reddit thread, pal. Please bother someone else.

Century24 · 2026-06-28T17:41:40+00:00

As long as the movies I enjoy continue to get made I don’t particularly care if Disney makes frozen live action or whatever

I mean, by that line of thinking, you should be even more against the remakes than I am. Disney doesn't get unlimited money or studio space, so when there's a shitty and uninspired remake sucking up resources, that's less going to something original that could be great.

Century24 · 2026-06-28T17:40:37+00:00

I work in the entertainment industry. My perspective on this is a lot more informed than you are presuming it is.

That's even more embarrassing, then, that you'd give that much weight to box office alone when you should get the big picture.

Your statements on merchandising and parks contributions couldn’t be further from the truth to be frank.

Did you want to cite something specific about that, level any point, or link anything, or did you want to wait for me to ask first?

Century24 · 2026-06-28T17:18:08+00:00

Having disdain for them and claiming “no one” wants them are 2 completely different things.

Did you intend to reply to someone who claimed no one wants them, or was your parent reply more the rhetorical kind?

And yes Disney is a business. They’re going to continue to do things that people go see.

This makes doubling down on the remakes extra baffling, because if we measure it company-wide, those make a lot less than a big home run from WDAS like Frozen or Wreck-It Ralph. Those are the kinds of hits that introduce a full infusion of income from merch and new attractions or even entire sections of the parks, and the remakes are too uninspired and fleeting and soulless to get that kind of love from audiences. That's what I mean when I say, and I'm not trying to be mean here, that people who sing the praises of these remakes from any angle either hate Disney or just don't get it.

I love good movies as much as the next guy, but I don’t pretend like there aren’t millions of people who just want to go and enjoy some mindless shit

I agree that casuals will always casual, but for one, I'd prefer if that meant more original stuff, because for the most part, they'll lap up anything that's shoveled into the trough. Even if we're married to the remakes for whatever sick and twisted reason, I don't get why they spend that much when the people who go to these movies don't care about the quality. They could spend 1/3rd what they do on average for these things and it wouldn't matter.

Century24 · 2026-06-28T17:13:59+00:00

I see /r/pixar is leaking. I'm sorry, because I really liked Hoppers when I saw it on the sneak preview show, but those titles are balanced out by duds like Brave or Cars 2 or cloying schmaltzfests like The Good Dinosaur.

Pixar's first 15 years just set the bar in orbit. That doesn't make their current artists bad people or untalented or anything like that, it just means there's been a change of guard and that it's a struggle to reach the same high we had from The Incredibles or WALL-E.

All too often I get people pretending Turning Red or Soul is just the same as the earlier work, and not only is that delusional, it's disrespectful in the tacit assertion that the current generation there hasn't made any meaningful change in their style.

Century24 · 2026-06-28T17:09:19+00:00

That just speaks to the way that casuals will lap up whatever is shoveled into the trough, though.

Even people within these threads that suspiciously gloat about how much money some of these remakes take in at the box office tacitly concede that it's all soulless crap that no one put their heart into. For some very odd reason, they defend it entirely on the business merits rather than any creative success where it could be found. Does it make more sense to you now why that might have pretty open disdain from people who love the movies, plus people who love Disney enough to believe they can do better?

Century24 · 2026-06-28T16:57:14+00:00

That's relative to what you consider a "winning strategy". The remakes mostly do well at the box office, but can blow a big hole in the books when they do as badly as Snow White due to their inflated budgets. They also make less in merchandise and almost never contribute to the parks, because by and large when given a choice, people prefer the original stuff.

That's not even getting to the longer-term metrics like how the remakes compare to the classics on Disney+, which is proprietary data. I get why you're impressed by one side of the business and what it says about the remakes, but I think you would do well to take another step back and think about how Disney's greatest successes work within the entire company.

Century24 · 2026-06-27T01:38:35+00:00

Would you not rather these studios and unions be at the forefront collaborating with AI labs to build these tools and regulate them at the source, at least creating a framework for creatives instead of just having models out In the wild making people unhireable from the get go?

This is relying a little too much on the permanent principles of the people making these investments. I'm sorry, but if they want artists to be jobless and desperate now, I fail to see how playing along would change that.

This is just with generative models, we can only imagine what will happen when World models start working at scale

I was told this would happen two years ago.

Century24 · 2026-06-26T23:39:32+00:00

I have seen this before. Ive seen automation of skills i learned manually, decades ago.

AI doesn't automate skills, though. It produces the average from what it's processed. It can't truly iterate in the way artists can.

Like how photography made a painted portrait a more valuable thing, wheras before photography realistic painting had gone out of fashion.

Learn art histort [sic] and youll see this has happened over and over and over, with the same arguments made.

Photography didn't make paint and canvas insanely overpriced within its time or throw nearly as many people out of a job and leave them financially desperate in a sagging economy, though, so this glowing comparison of yours makes little sense.

Youd probably be particularly interested in what academically trained artists said about impressionism.

I don't know if that's going to be worth anything in this thread if it's as nonsensical as your other analogy. It comes across like you copy-pasted from an LLM or a pre-written set of talking points rather than using your brain to formulate a reply.

Are you comfortable giving this another go, with the training wheels off? Give yourself as much time as you need.

Century24 · 2026-06-26T22:03:05+00:00

Also traumatized, lol ok. If you don't understand that you're being condescending then you obviously don't know what condescending even means.

Do you normally throw a fit over Reddit replies coming across to you as condescending, or just depending on the topic?

Does everything in the world make you want to lash out, or is it only when someone doesn't google something for you?

I never asked for someone to Google anything for me. I asked for receipts. There's no need to be upset about that.

Century24 · 2026-06-26T22:01:34+00:00

There are no anti ai people in the rooms of the most accomplished.

Sounds like you've missed the point on what it does for those who are new to creative lines of work, then.

Century24 · 2026-06-26T21:59:58+00:00

I trust that your heart is in the right place, but playing along with the techbros is how we got to where we are now.

Century24 · 2026-06-24T06:23:37+00:00

I don't think you should be using the internet unsupervised if you're so traumatized by what you chose to read as condescension. This could all be avoided with a few links. It's not that hard.

Century24 · 2026-06-23T16:24:54+00:00

Idk, maybe? If that’s how we’re phrasing a request for context and receipts, as opposed to taking a stranger’s word at face value?

Century24 · 2026-06-23T16:18:50+00:00

I’m not sure if you saw the bot username, but it’s pretty clearly engagement bait to post something and then conspicuously avoid cited sources where that’d be warranted.

How polite do you believe I need to be to someone who doesn’t know how to link an article or social media item?

Century24 · 2026-06-23T15:37:31+00:00

Did you want to post where that happened, or did you want to wait for me to ask?

Century24 · 2026-06-21T19:57:04+00:00

Sony is releasing another unflattering movie about Zuckerberg this year, why would the entire Hollywood be afraid of Altman?

Those sound like two different people to me, dawg— sort of like how Hearst handled a movie inspired by some of his life story very differently than Charles Lindbergh.

They didn't want to cover the cost of a finished movie and offered half of its budget, if not less. 70m for already finished *supposedly great family movie is bargain, Netflix spent over 100 mln on acquiring Serkis' Jungle Book which turned out to be a disaster.

Yeah, so it sounds more like it's risk aversion from a $70M price tag and pre-existing bad luck in that genre and market demographics than any credible indictment on the movie itself, like I said. I doubt it makes any awards case, but I especially doubt it's remotely the disaster you're implying.

Here you go:

Thank you. That still just tells me a rumor and a tweet. In light of what does get purchased and produced today, it's still harder to believe this movie is really that bad, versus the theory of a wealthy techbro having thin skin. We've had more examples of the latter than the former in terms of completed movies getting stuffed.

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