AI Slop: a discussion about good enough technologies at Fusion Festival 2026
AI Slop: a discussion about good enough technologies plays Fusion Festival 2026 on Fri, Jun 26 at 12:00 at the Casino stage in Germany.
- Day
- Fri, Jun 26
- Set time
- 12:00–13:00Europe/Berlin
- Stage
- Casino
- Festival dates
- Jun 24–29, 2026
- Country
- Germany
Plan around it
Around this set
Star anything here and it joins your plan, clash warnings included.
On the Casino
- 11:00–12:00Casino morning yoga with Hanna Turner
- 12:00–13:00AI Slop: a discussion about good enough technologiesThis set
- 13:00–14:00Queer Futuring – Utopias of Care & Solidarity
At the same time
- 12:00–12:00xstage – Experimental Stage ProjectOutdoor
- 16:00–23:00PassengersOutdoor
- 04:30–06:00DJ ToolQuerfeld
- 10:02–14:00Infoladen im Workshophanger / Infoshop in the WorkshophangerWorkshop Hangar Domes
- 10:05–13:30Siebdruck Workshop / Screen printing WorkshopWorkshop Hangar Domes
On the ground
Find the Casino
AI Slop: a discussion about good enough technologies plays at the Casino, marked on the Fusion Festival 2026 map below.
About this set
- Talk
- Others
The internet has been a mess for a while. Clickbait, fake news, endless content that says very little, images of nothing – just a constant stream of crappy, sloppy stuff. Now AI/LLMs are making it worse. With tools like ChatGPT, we can produce huge amounts of text, images, and ideas in seconds. A lot of it sounds convincing. A lot of it looks finished. But much of it is…kind of empty. Slightly off. Just okay. So how do we make sense of this? In this session, we bring in two sociologists to think through this growing pile of »AI slop.« One way to understand it is through the idea of »good enoughness.« Most technologies aren’t designed to be perfect – they’re designed to be good enough to work. AI supercharges this. It produces content that feels usable and complete, regardless of whether it’s shallow or wrong. That’s how slop spreads: it passes. In this session we will discuss the following questions: What is AI slop and how did it get here? Why are technologies just meant to be good enough? Who is actually producing all this slop – AI, or us? We’ll share a few short, real examples from how people actually use AI at work and in everyday life. And then we open it up to you: Bring your weirdest AI outputs, your frustrations, your favorite uses – or your skepticism. Let’s try to make sense of the mess together.