Who do I praise for insight? Sharing slop is sharing something that's practically worthless.
What is slop, really? Prior to AI, most of the internet was slop, most of youtube is slop. I mean it's literally called brainrot.
Just because someone used AI doesn't necessarily mean there was no human insight involved, and doesn't mean the thing is necessarily more worthless than a comparable thing made by human hands.
AI is merely a tool. If a human has directed it to make something interesting, beautiful, or worth consideration, then it's not slop.
Indeed, similar arguments currently used against AI were leveled against photography at its inception. As a photographer who learned with film and darkroom, and who was deeply inspired by the work of Jerry Uelsmann (which was all made in the darkroom, by hand, prior to Photoshop), we've seen this before. Though admittedly the scale now is much broader.
What is slop, really? Prior to AI, most of the internet was slop, most of youtube is slop. I mean it's literally called brainrot.
Just because someone used AI doesn't necessarily mean there was no human insight involved, and doesn't mean the thing is necessarily more worthless than a comparable thing made by human hands.
AI is merely a tool. If a human has directed it to make something interesting, beautiful, or worth consideration, then it's not slop.
Indeed, similar arguments currently used against AI were leveled against photography at its inception. As a photographer who learned with film and darkroom, and who was deeply inspired by the work of Jerry Uelsmann (which was all made in the darkroom, by hand, prior to Photoshop), we've seen this before. Though admittedly the scale now is much broader.