XPost: alt.tv.star-trek, rec.arts.startrek.current
From: suzeeq@imbris.com
On 1/17/2026 6:30 AM, Jerry Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:49:50 -0800, Aka Ben wrote:
>
>> weberm@polaris.net wrote:
>>
>>> I got thinking about AI content and specifically, you know, how we can
>>> complain about how it's used to take existing content as training data and
>>> produce something new from it, remixing and iterating from human-made
content
>>> that went before and then churning out an impressive but derivative and
>>> unoriginal work. And it's become known as slop because it feels very false,
>>> inauthentic and machineered without any real creativity, innovation, soul
or
>>> human imagination behind it. It is soulless. It is empty. But in a sense,
AI
>>> video and AI art is merely a more efficient and powerful tool to accomplish
>>> what Hollywood has been doing for years, far longer than AI has even
existed,
>>> which is to produce bland, uninspiring, repetitive, and unoriginal content
>>> over and over, churning out a steady assembly line of sequels, reboots,
>>> prequels, and reimaginings of movies, TV shows, those cartoons and comic
>>> books that went before for decades.
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/PNTHlAn6AyU?si=gpJOjSIVTPgBvjmJ
>>
>> "I swallowed my combadge" <- Actual line from the show that tells you all
you need to know.
>
> Ubi's reviews gave me such low expectations that I actually ended up
It's not his review, he actually reposted it from somewhere else.
> quite enjoying it. It reminded me of Prodigy, which also grew on me
> after a shaky start.
I didn't think it was that bad either.
>
> My main beef was the wall of Star Fleet Heroes, on which I couldn't
> find Captain Lorca - supposedly one the greatest of his time, but lost
> in the Mirrorverse with only his counterpart to sully his record, and
> not considered worth mounting a rescue mission for on the grounds that
> he was "probably" dead.
>
>
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