Episode: Roasting the Sovereign AI Slop

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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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