The Human Economy Behind Platform-Ready AI Slop, with Martin Degeling and Salvatore Romano. Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI, University of Siegen. Siegen, Germany. 22–25 September 2026.
Tagged “AI slop”
AI and its (Dis)Contents: Methods of Mapping AI as and with Digital Media, with Ruchard Rogers and Natalia Sánchez Querubín. Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital, King’s College London. London, UK. 23–26 June 2026.
Artificial Elections 2.0: Exposing the Use of Generative Al Imagery in the 2026 French Municipal Election campaigns, with Miazia Schueler, Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano. AI Forensics. 2026.
The Human Guide to Detecting AI Imagery. AI Forensics. 2026.
Prompt, Upload, Repeat: The Clutched Entanglement of Platform Economy and Governance in the Face of Agentic Al Accounts, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. PlatGovNet 2025: Transitions, frictions and new realities in global platform governance. Online. December 1, 2025.
Networked artifacts analytics: Interdisciplinary methods of investigating synthetic AI imagery. Seeing Through Complexity: Entanglements in Visual Cultures, ECREA Visual Cultures Section. Online. 6 November 2025.
Prompt, Upload, Repeat: How Agentic AI Accounts Flood TikTok with Harmful Content, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. AI Forensics, 2025. Also online as a Preprint.
Platformatted Hype: How to Operationalize the Formalities of AI ‘Slop’. (DON’T) BELIEVE THE HYPE, Hype Studies. Barcelona, Spain. 10–12 September 2025.
Generating Algorithmic Virality: How synthetic AI imagery and agentic AI accounts try to game TikTok and Instagram, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Buse Ryze Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. AI Forensics, 2025. Also online as a Preprint.
The Death of an Image - Again? Using the ‘Digital Forensic Gaze’ to See (like) Deepfakes, with Richard Rogers. Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images. IUAV University of Venice. Venice, Italy. 8–10 May 2025.
Artificial Elections: Exposing the Use of Generative AI Imagery in the Political Campaigns of the 2024 French Elections, with Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Buse Ryze Çetin, Sonia Tabti, Marc Faddoul, Ibis Lilley. AI Forensics, 2024.