I was recently digging through the PlayStation Store\u2019s upcoming games section when I spotted a clearly AI-generated image of a shark in shoes. \u201cStrange,\u201d I thought to myself. And then I saw another. And then three more. And then even more. That\u2019s when I realized AI slop has fully infested the PSN Store. <\/p>\n
Nintendo Switch 2 Price Is Set at $450 for Now, But Could Go Higher<\/p>\n
For years now, many people (myself included) have criticized Nintendo over how crappy its digital storefront is on Switch. It ran poorly, lacked key features, and worst of all, was filled with AI garbage<\/a>, asset flips, and low-effort spam games that were often poorly made rip-offs of bigger titles. These days, on Switch 2, the eShop runs better, and Nintendo does seem to be trying to push back on all the slop in the store<\/a>. That\u2019s nice. But Nintendo isn\u2019t the only storefront drowning in crap. For example, have you looked around the PlayStation Store lately? If not, you might be shocked by how it has become filled with AI slop.<\/p>\n If you hop over to the PlayStation Store and search for \u201cTralalero Tralala<\/a>,\u201d you\u2019ll discover about a dozen \u201cgames\u201d with artwork featuring a shark wearing shoes. Type in \u201cTung Tung\u201d<\/a> and you\u2019ll get a bunch of slop featuring the same image of a wooden doll man with a baseball bat. And if you look up \u201cBombardiro<\/a>\u201d you\u2019ll find some AI artwork of an alligator\/plane hybrid. These are all online memes referred to by many as \u201cItalian Brainrot.\u201d<\/a> Many of these games are made by the same few companies that seem to exclusively produce this junk.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what one of the games, Tralalero Tralala Jumper, looks like: <\/p>\n It\u2019s not just weird memes from TikTok that are being turned into AI slop. Another popular topic for these \u201cgames\u201d is the internet\u2019s creepy but now overused \u201cBackrooms\u201d concept<\/a>, and there are so many games about digging a hole<\/a>, inspired directly by the smash hit Steam game, A Game About Digging A Hole. <\/p>\n For now, these games don\u2019t generally show up when you search for something like Grand Theft Auto or Fortnite, so I assume most people aren\u2019t running into them. However, I\u2019ve spotted these games appearing in different parts of the store while looking for other stuff. And I can only imagine how many younger kids are searching up some of those \u201cItalian Brainrot\u201d memes and buying games based on them. Many of these titles featuring AI art are priced very low. Tralalero Tralala Jumper, for example, is only 50 cents. <\/p>\n I\u2019m honestly baffled as to why Sony is letting this stuff live on the PlayStation Store next to big games like God of War and indie darlings like Blue Prince. It makes the store feel less like a curated collection of great games and more like a landfill where anyone can dump their garbage. It took me just a few minutes to locate dozens of these games, and it seems wild to me that Sony doesn\u2019t have a few people on staff going through and deleting some of the most egregious crap on the store. <\/p>\n If something isn\u2019t done soon I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if this AI slop becomes a bigger problem, with more and more folks stumbling upon this junk as they shop the PlayStation Store. <\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was recently digging through the PlayStation Store\u2019s upcoming games section when I spotted a clearly AI-generated image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[15954,15957,9655,174,15956,959,1299,2211,15955,1014,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-17054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai-slop","9":"tag-grand-theft-auto","10":"tag-home-video-game-consoles","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-italian-brainrot","13":"tag-kotaku","14":"tag-nintendo","15":"tag-playstation","16":"tag-slop","17":"tag-sony","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}