Episode: Roasting the Sovereign AI Slop
The Monolithos Roast | Chaos & Cut
Two critics dissect "After Slop: The Coming Age of Sovereign AI" — a 5,000-word manifesto on aesthetic inflation, cognitive colonization, and the sovereignty divide.
Discussed in this episode:
→ "Slop" as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year
→ Christie's $728K AI art auction and the Provenance Premium
→ Holly Herndon's "Spawn" — sovereign AI in practice
→ Prada and Tod's "Artisanal Intelligence"
→ Varoufakis's Technofeudalism: Cloudalists vs Cloud Serfs
→ Cognitive Colonization — thinking inside someone else's container
→ Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, and the private darkroom
→ Is Sovereign AI liberation or luxury?
Read the full essay:
After Slop — silasyu.substack.com
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