{"id":35943,"date":"2026-11-13T07:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35943"},"modified":"2026-11-13T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:31:22","slug":"out-arguing-with-the-internet-in-arguing-with-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/13\/out-arguing-with-the-internet-in-arguing-with-ai-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"Out: Arguing with the Internet.  In: Arguing with AI Slop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted on Facebook because it&#8217;s important to show me AI slop instead of friends:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/weirdsciencerealgenius.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, man.  <em>Real Genius<\/em> is not practically the same movie as <em>Weird Science<\/em>.  They both just fit into the genre of nerdy kids doing science things.  AI might as well tell me that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089652\/\" target=\"_new\">My Science Project<\/em><\/a>, which also came out in 1985, was the same movie.<\/p>\n<p>You know, the first and the last were both on Showtime in the trailer days, I saw them several times.  I&#8217;ve watched <em>Real Genius<\/em> recently (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/20\/the-interleaved-movies-of-spring-break\/\" target=\"_new\">2021<\/a>?  Five years ago already?) and <em>Weird Science<\/em> probably just before I started writing movie reports, I have not seen <em>My Science Project<\/em> in a long time.  I&#8217;ll have to look for it.  <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I am starting to test an app that will allow me to capture things I&#8217;m looking for when I think of them.  How handy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted on Facebook because it&#8217;s important to show me AI slop instead of friends: C&#8217;mon, man. Real Genius is not practically the same movie as Weird Science. They both just fit into the genre of nerdy kids doing science things. AI might as well tell me that My Science Project, which also came out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35945,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943\/revisions\/35945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}