Matthew Gault and Emanuel Maiberg, “The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel”, 404 Media, June 18, 2025, ➝.
Ali Khamenei (@khamenei_ir), “"Help from Allah and an imminent conquest" (Holy Quran: 61:13),” X, June 16, 2025, ➝.
Dana Nickel, “AI Slop spreads in Israel-Iran War”, Politico, June 23, 2025, ➝.
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994).
The traditional Krebs cycle occurs in most forms of life that use oxygen to generate energy, whereby the body breaks down nutrients like glucose in a series of chemical reactions. During this process, carbon dioxide is released as waste and energy is captured in molecules that cells use to power their activities.
Vilém Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical Images (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011); Harun Farocki, Eye/Machine I–III, 2001–03. Video installation trilogy.
See Kate Crawford in conversation with Paola Antonelli, “Metabolic Images,” Aperture, Winter 2024, ➝.
Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vol. 1, trans. Paul Reitter (London: Penguin Classics, 2019).
John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000).
Jason W. Moore, “Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective,” Organization & Environment 13, no. 2 (June 2000): 123–57.
Sina Alemohammad, et al., “Self-Consuming Generative Models Go Mad,” arXiv preprint, 2023, ➝; Ilia Shumailov et al., “AI Models Collapse When Trained on Recursively Generated Data,” Nature 631 (2024): 755–759.
Todd Spangler, “Why Apple’s iPad Ad Fell Flat: Company Failed to Understand It Conjured Fears of ‘Tech Kind of Destroying Humanity’,” Variety, May 16, 2024, ➝.
Pablo Villalobos et. al. “Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on Human-Generated Data,” arXiv preprint, 2024, ➝.
Kyle Wiggers, “Elon Musk Agrees That We’ve Exhausted AI Training Data,” TechCrunch, Jan 8, 2025, ➝.
Jordan Meyer et. al, “Public Domain 12M: A Highly Aesthetic Image-Text Dataset with Novel Governance Mechanisms,” arXiv preprint, 2024 ➝.
“AI Is Set to Drive Surging Electricity Demand from Data Centres While Offering the Potential to Transform How the Energy Sector Works,” International Energy Agency, April 10, 2025, ➝.
Ian King, “AI Computing Is on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says,” Bloomberg, April 17, 2024, ➝.
Bracey Harris et al, “Up against Musk’s Colossus supercomputer, a Memphis neighborhood fights for clean air,” NBC News, May 15, 2025, ➝.
See Stargate Project announcement: “Trump announces 'Stargate' AI infrastructure project with 'colossal data centers',” posted January 21, 2025, by NBC News, YouTube, ➝; James Walker, “Opening the Stargate: Tech Giants to Invest $500B in AI Data Center Infrastructure,” Data Center Knowledge, January 22, 2025, ➝.
See more at this report: Tatiana Carayannis, Naima Kane, Marie-Therese Png, and Alondra Nelson, Summary Report: Workshop on the Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the AI Supply Chain, (Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab, Institute for Advanced Study, 2025), ➝.
Matt Klein, “The Problematic Fakery Of Lil Miquela Explained—An Exploration Of Virtual Influencers and Realness,” Forbes, November 17, 2020, ➝.
Dexter Thomas, “Inside the Economy of AI Spammers Getting Rich By Exploiting Disasters and Misery,” 404 Media, January 22, 2025, ➝.
