Pornography is a strange thing—it takes something good and natural (sex), exploits that appetite for the good, inverts it, turns it inward, monetizes it, and sets the table for a one-man digital gorge-fest. The flood of digital images in the pornographic realm over the past three decades has been exponential and simply impossible to reign in…not that anyone is trying to do so. 

This is not a world I inhabit, but I would imagine if I had access to a limitless glut of digital images at my fingertips used to tantalize my sexual faculties that was difficult to regulate, I would have to consider seriously the zero-tolerance words of the Apostle in order to function in moral society: "Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality" (Ephesians 5:3). What other option does one have? We are simply not made, evolutionarily speaking, to see so many naked bodies in a lifetime. Those who sow the seeds of online pornography in their lives reap the thorns of erectile dysfunction, distorted perceptions of the opposite sex, and sexual illiteracy. As the Sage notes, "He who is sated loathes honey" (Proverbs 27:7).  

As bad as pornography is for the individual body, mind, and spirit, I'd like to argue that the blistering pace with which AI-generated imagery and content is flooding the internet is benign digi-porn 2.0 on crack. Why? Because this synthetic media or "AI slop"—low-effort digital content made with generative AI which lacks quality and deeper meaning is produced at such an overwhelming volume that we are literally drowning in it—is leading to an epistemological crisis that makes us question the very foundations of reality itself.