How Star Trek Predicted AI Slop

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Written by Paul Strauss | December 3, 2025
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Generative AI technology has potential to take on boring, time-intensive tasks nobody wants to do. But, as Rowan J Coleman reminds us, it’s also coming for creative jobs. In this video essay, Rowan talks about a 1968 Star Trek episode in which a computer threatens the livelihood of Captain Kirk and his crew, and how AI-prompted art is fundamentally hollow.