AI and Aesthetic Alienation: The Image and Creativity in Contemporary Culture

IF 2.7 2区社会学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI:10.1177/08944393251361449

Naomi Smith, Clare Southerton

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Abstract

In this comment piece, we argue that mass-produced generative AI (GenAI) images, commonly referred to as “AI slop” should be considered a form of aesthetic alienation. Specifically, we focus on GenAI images of fall, arguing that GenAI images alienate not only artists from their art, but produces an alienating aesthetic in and of itself. Closely attending to the aesthetic registers of GenAI images opens up important sociological questions about the role of the image in contemporary society, and the affective logics of late capitalism. Finally, we highlight how GenAI images are profoundly implicated in the extractive and destructive materialities of late capitalism.

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人工智能与审美异化：当代文化中的意象与创造力

在这篇评论文章中，我们认为大规模生产的生成人工智能（GenAI）图像，通常被称为“人工智能泔水”，应该被视为一种审美异化形式。具体来说，我们关注的是GenAI的秋天图像，认为GenAI图像不仅使艺术家与他们的艺术疏远，而且本身也产生了一种疏远的审美。密切关注GenAI图像的美学注册，开启了关于图像在当代社会中的作用以及晚期资本主义情感逻辑的重要社会学问题。最后，我们强调GenAI图像如何深刻地牵连到晚期资本主义的掠夺性和破坏性物质。

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Social Science Computer Review 社会科学-计算机：跨学科应用

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

4.90%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Unique Scope Social Science Computer Review is an interdisciplinary journal covering social science instructional and research applications of computing, as well as societal impacts of informational technology. Topics included: artificial intelligence, business, computational social science theory, computer-assisted survey research, computer-based qualitative analysis, computer simulation, economic modeling, electronic modeling, electronic publishing, geographic information systems, instrumentation and research tools, public administration, social impacts of computing and telecommunications, software evaluation, world-wide web resources for social scientists. Interdisciplinary Nature Because the Uses and impacts of computing are interdisciplinary, so is Social Science Computer Review. The journal is of direct relevance to scholars and scientists in a wide variety of disciplines. In its pages you''ll find work in the following areas: sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, computer literacy, computer applications, and methodology.