Ai Slop

Let us be clear: there is an enormous amount of content with no quality whatsoever being poured daily onto every social network and onto the internet in general, and of course that is bad. And I do not believe it is bad in a moral or ethical sense —that is not my concern, and in the end such things are nothing but idiocies— but because it works against the interests of serious, committed creators who use AI to complement our creative processes.

AI tools are enhancers of human abilities, and especially of creation —to keep the conversation focused. Those of us who are responsible toward our work and our craft, and who are committed to quality and effort, are the ones harmed by the avalanche of garbage content, because the consumer, anesthetized by the vast stream of crap, develops an allergic reaction to anything that has AI involved somewhere in its process. And that is not fair at all.

Another consequence of this hyper-reaction against AI in creative environments can be seen clearly on Reddit —fine, we already know people there are a bit stupid and have nothing better to do than live their parallel lives in their favorite thread—, a place where more and more communities have allowed themselves to be bent by pressure from haters into banning any content related to AI, and even the people who share or argue in favor of AI. A ridiculous and puerile madness in which the only ones harmed are us.

I suppose the solution lies in opening new spaces where AI is not forbidden, and watching those other places languish as the years go by.