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highplainsdem

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8. You have to really lower your standards to think AI slop is okay. You also have to not give a damn about artists

Reply to Initech (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 31, 2026, 12:21 PM

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to think it's okay, if you have any understanding at all of the worldwide theft of intellectual property to train generative AI. And you have to not give a damn about the future of art and music and film and writing, because that tsunami of slop will discourage kids from developing their own creativity and their own skills, while people without skills and creativity churn out slop in seconds.

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AI Slop Is Destroying the Internet. These Are the People Fighting to Save It [View all] highplainsdem Tuesday OP

K&R WhiskeyGrinder Tuesday #1

Thanks! highplainsdem Tuesday #5

It's not just AI slop, it's all the disinformation that's become commonplace on the internet. sop Tuesday #2

Some of that - misinformation anyway - is slop because it isn't intentional. Much of the misinformation highplainsdem Tuesday #4

I trust nothing... Historic NY Tuesday #3

I suspected a few years ago that genAI's effects would be bad, but I had no real idea then just how fast highplainsdem Tuesday #6

What's scary is the #1 song right now on iTunes is 100% verified AI slop. Initech Tuesday #7

You have to really lower your standards to think AI slop is okay. You also have to not give a damn about artists highplainsdem Tuesday #8

Yeah I 100% agree with everything that you said. Initech Tuesday #9

Of course there is no off button for AI slop. Prairie_Seagull Tuesday #10

We'll have a situation that authoritarians will love. Confused, lost people will often turn to authoritarian highplainsdem Tuesday #12

Facebook is too much AI slop now Johnny2X2X Tuesday #11