Jessica Karl, Columnist

How to Dissociate from the First AI War? Watch Fruit Slop

People love to watch fruit and vegetables quarrel on TikTok, but they draw the line at using AI to resurrect dead celebrities.

Hooked on slop.

Images via Canva and TikTok; photo illustration by Jessica Karl

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I wonder if future scholars will chronicle how during the First AI War, mankind chose to distract itself from the bloodshed by creating even more AI. I can picture the chapter in a high school history textbook already: “Fruit and Veggie Slop: Dissociation, Digital Escapism, and the Birth of the Talking Banana.” The opening would read like this: