Digital Media and Philosophy

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• The Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural Economy

  Eryk Salvaggio · 18 de junio de 2026

  Valuable critique of generative image models within visual culture and the humanities has emphasized the role of datasets in shaping the images they produce. Yet, close studies of the ideological positions embedded into the mechanism of the models have been neglected, leaving them imagined as "black…

• Why Slop Matters

  Cody Kommers, Eamon Duede, Julia Gordon, Ari Holtzman, Tess McNulty, Spencer Stewart, Lindsay Thomas, Richard Jean So, Hoyt Long · 13 de enero de 2026

  AI-generated "slop" is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop that deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social function: it offers a supply-side solution to a variety of problems in cultural and economic demand - that…