New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it I n 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has nicknamed its excretions “slop”. The CEOs of AI companies prance about on stage like supervillains, bragging that their products will eliminate vast swathes of work. Generative AI requires sacrificing the world’s water to feed its hideous data centres.