Comment by JCM9

Comment by JCM9 3 hours ago

With AI slop showing up everywhere, there’s a real danger that folks will just no longer be motivated to produce real original content.

With all major models not basically trained on nearly all available data, beyond the financial AI bubble about to burst there’s also a big content bubble that’s about exhausted as folks are just pumping out slop vs producing original creative human output. That may be the ultimate long term tragedy of the present AI hype cycle. Expect “made by a human” to soon be a tag associated with premium brands and customer experiences.

sixeyes 3 hours ago

I will not stop writing music or drawing my furry bullshit, no matter the culture climate around me. Don't get your hopes up ;3

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philipwhiuk an hour ago

When you're the only one doing it, you'll have a large impact on model generation

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riazrizvi 3 hours ago

AI slop is like 90’s websites and desktop publishing - there’s a novelty for AI-newbie-creators driving them to churn out lazy crap, while being oblivious to how it lands with strangers.

Tastes will mature, society will more vocally mock this crap, and we’ll stop seeing the sloppier stuff come out of reputable locations.

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HeinzStuckeIt 3 hours ago

You assume that the public recognizes AI slop for what it is. Across platforms now, people are readily engaging with blatant AI text posts and generated images as if they are bona-fide. In fact, if you point out that the poster is a bot, you may well well get some flack from the community.

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exasperaited 3 hours ago

> Expect “made by a human” to soon be a tag associated with premium brands and customer experiences.

I went to a grammar school and I write in mostly pretty high-quality sentences with a bit of British English colloquialism. I spell well, spend time thinking about what I am saying and try to speak clearly, etc.

I've always tried to be kind about people making errors but I am currently retraining my mind to see spelling mistakes and grammar errors as inherent authenticity. Because one thing ChatGPT and its ilk cannot do -- I guess architecturally —- is act convincingly like those who misspell, accidentally coin new eggcorns, accidentally use malapropisms, or use novel but terrible grammar.

And you're right: IMO the rage against the cultural damage AI will do is only just beginning, and I don't think people have clocked on to the fact that economic havoc is built-in, success or failure.

The web/AI/software-tech industry will be loathed even more than it is now (and this loathing is increasingly justified)

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gorbachev 3 hours ago

> one thing ChatGPT and its ilk cannot do -- I guess architecturally —- is act convincingly like those who misspell, accidentally coin new eggcorns, accidentally use malapropisms, or use novel but terrible grammar
Just wait a few more years until the majority of ChatGPT training data is filled with misspellings, accidental eggcorns, malapropisms and terrible grammar.
That, and AI slop itself.

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gabrielgio 3 hours ago

> With AI slop showing up everywhere, there’s a real danger that folks will just no longer be motivated to produce real original content.

I think people would still produce original things as long they have the means for doing it. I guess we could say it is our nature. My fear is AI monopolizing the wealth that once would go to support people producing art.

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JohnFen an hour ago

This. I still produce original things and will continue to do so until I am incapable anymore. What's changed, though, is that I no longer put or discuss those things on the open internet because there's no realistic way to prevent it from getting used to train genAI models.

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TiredOfLife an hour ago

> With AI slop showing up everywhere, there’s a real danger that folks will just no longer be motivated to produce real original content.

BBC truly was ahead of times with their deletion of tv shows.

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oblio 2 hours ago

We already have this in the physical world.

Plastic/synthetics are the slop of the physical world. They're a side product of extracting oil and gas so they're extremely cheap.

Yet if you look at synthetics by volume, probably 99% of them are used just because they're cheaper than the natural alternative. Yes, some have characteristics that are novel, but by and large everything we do with plastics is ultimately based on "they're cheaper".

Plastics, unfortunately, aren't going away.

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