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LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan

Podcast · ~43 min · Listen · (gathered 2026-09-03)

  • The core argument posits that Large Language Models (LLMs) are fundamentally incapable of creating genuine art, exploring the various reasons for this inherent limitation.
  • The discussion centers on the concept of “AI slop,” referencing an academic paper titled “Why Slop Matters” (arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06060), to explain why AI-generated content fails to achieve true artistic merit.
  • Ed Zitron is joined by guests Arif Hasan of Wide Left and Caleb Wilson of Kill The Computer to delve into the distinctions between AI output and human artistic creation.