LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
Better Offline | 02 sep 2026 | 00:42:55
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to talk about an academic paper on AI slop, and the many reasons why LLMS can never truly make art.
Why Slop Matters: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06060
Arif Hasan
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Caleb Wilson
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