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Behind the Blog: Infinite Bowl Machine

Emanuel discusses a new type of AI-generated nonconsensual image on X, exploring the phenomenon of 'slop bowls' and the endless quest for optimization in AI music and content creation.

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Behind the Blog: Infinite Bowl Machine
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*This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss AI music, slop bowls, and the endless quest for optimization. *

**EMANUEL: **We’ve used Behind the Blog a few times at this point to pull the curtain on our story selection process. Usually, we do this when we explain the reasoning behind the decision to write a story we already published, but today I want to talk about a story I didn’t write (yet).

For the past few months I’ve been looking at a new and strange type of AI generated nonconsensual image on X.

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