AI generated content has created an army of people who now have an accusation they can levy at any content they find to be poor quality without having to actually articulate any true assessment or critique of the content.
It has also made it necessary or reflexive for even the most conscientious person to consider if content was AI generated. Even if they never share they are considering it. No one wants to praise something only to learn a computer shit it out.
It’s all really corrosive to creativity and the place it holds in our social fabric.
“Slop” was brewing as a term just as AI generated video blew up. It was primed for launch by drama slop YouTube channels and other content slop on video platforms. But it exploded into common use as a result of AI generated content flooding social media platforms.
I personally hate that slop has become so broad and loose of a term. For example, “friend slop” is a really shitty brain dead term for small multiplayer games like Peak. There’s always shitty people with no taste abusing useful terms like this.
I think “AI slop” is great tho. And big tech CEOs can cry all they want about that one.
It frustrating when I see all the shitty posts in indie game forums like “This looks like AI. Prove that it’s not” and then troll the developer. Witch hunts like that is what will piss people off to turn on the Fuck AI crowd.
If ai really is that bad then you shouldn’t have to worry about accidentally liking something made by ai. Making sure it isn’t ai before praising it is just biased
I dunno. There’s something hollow in pure AI hallucinated images, video and music. Finding it beautiful or good feels like preferring one flavor of white noise over another. Undifferentiated sensory input with no human craft.
There’s definitely nuance and a spectrum to how much AI is used and how it is executed. I’m being prejudiced against prompted images and videos and songs specifically. Anything directly spit out by AI with a text string as input.
I have an open mind about things cobbled together by an artist blending traditional techniques with AI.
It’s just like people who can’t articulate why they hate a movie blame it all on CGI, it’s just a scapegoat easy and quick to say.
P.S. I’m not a proponent of LLMs I’m just stating an observation.
What do people even think is bad about the ending? I thought they wrapped everything up pretty well and left a bit open to the viewer.
Also what is the controversy here even about at its root? That there would have been some better ending if they didnt use ChatGPT (assuming they even did to begin with)? Regardless, it seems like a nonsensical thing to get outraged about especially with so little evidence.
I did a bit of reading of the main subreddit for the show and a lot of the complaining was about loose ends (what happened to X character?), plot holes and illogical sequences in the final battle and frustration with the amount of meaningful character development some characters did or did not receive. There were also a disturbing about of people upset because Mike didn’t magically turn gay and hook up with Will (???).
I think some of the complaints were fair but the show has been this bad for a long time. All things considered, I actually thought it was a decent finale and it had one of the better open endings I’ve seen. Like with a lot of these character-driven young adult shows, I get the feeling a lot of viewers developed parasocial relationships with the characters and had a hard time letting go. They are in so deep that they lose sight of the fact that the characters and world as it exists in their head is not necessarily the same as the characters and world that are being written for the show. They can’t admit that actually a lot of the magic of the show for them was completely born out of their own fan fiction communities, so when the finale inevitably fails to deliver it’s a lot easier to pretend the show was always perfect until it suddenly wasn’t rather than admit that it was never as great as they built it up to be.
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Sidenote, just because something is bad doesn’t mean it has to be AI slop. Show runners were fucking up finales long before ChatGPT came on the scene
AI generated content has created an army of people who now have an accusation they can levy at any content they find to be poor quality without having to actually articulate any true assessment or critique of the content.
It has also made it necessary or reflexive for even the most conscientious person to consider if content was AI generated. Even if they never share they are considering it. No one wants to praise something only to learn a computer shit it out.
It’s all really corrosive to creativity and the place it holds in our social fabric.
I’m glad the accusation has become a kind of insult, applied to low quality works.
“Slop” was brewing as a term just as AI generated video blew up. It was primed for launch by drama slop YouTube channels and other content slop on video platforms. But it exploded into common use as a result of AI generated content flooding social media platforms.
I personally hate that slop has become so broad and loose of a term. For example, “friend slop” is a really shitty brain dead term for small multiplayer games like Peak. There’s always shitty people with no taste abusing useful terms like this.
I think “AI slop” is great tho. And big tech CEOs can cry all they want about that one.
It frustrating when I see all the shitty posts in indie game forums like “This looks like AI. Prove that it’s not” and then troll the developer. Witch hunts like that is what will piss people off to turn on the Fuck AI crowd.
I hate how it’s being used as a scapegoat, and is letting rich assholes get away with the typical laziness that they have always employed.
AI is a fucking tool. That’s it! If you use it to write slop, that’s on you, not the LLM.
If ai really is that bad then you shouldn’t have to worry about accidentally liking something made by ai. Making sure it isn’t ai before praising it is just biased
I dunno. There’s something hollow in pure AI hallucinated images, video and music. Finding it beautiful or good feels like preferring one flavor of white noise over another. Undifferentiated sensory input with no human craft.
There’s definitely nuance and a spectrum to how much AI is used and how it is executed. I’m being prejudiced against prompted images and videos and songs specifically. Anything directly spit out by AI with a text string as input.
I have an open mind about things cobbled together by an artist blending traditional techniques with AI.
It’s just like people who can’t articulate why they hate a movie blame it all on CGI, it’s just a scapegoat easy and quick to say. P.S. I’m not a proponent of LLMs I’m just stating an observation.
What do people even think is bad about the ending? I thought they wrapped everything up pretty well and left a bit open to the viewer.
Also what is the controversy here even about at its root? That there would have been some better ending if they didnt use ChatGPT (assuming they even did to begin with)? Regardless, it seems like a nonsensical thing to get outraged about especially with so little evidence.
I did a bit of reading of the main subreddit for the show and a lot of the complaining was about loose ends (what happened to X character?), plot holes and illogical sequences in the final battle and frustration with the amount of meaningful character development some characters did or did not receive. There were also a disturbing about of people upset because Mike didn’t magically turn gay and hook up with Will (???).
I think some of the complaints were fair but the show has been this bad for a long time. All things considered, I actually thought it was a decent finale and it had one of the better open endings I’ve seen. Like with a lot of these character-driven young adult shows, I get the feeling a lot of viewers developed parasocial relationships with the characters and had a hard time letting go. They are in so deep that they lose sight of the fact that the characters and world as it exists in their head is not necessarily the same as the characters and world that are being written for the show. They can’t admit that actually a lot of the magic of the show for them was completely born out of their own fan fiction communities, so when the finale inevitably fails to deliver it’s a lot easier to pretend the show was always perfect until it suddenly wasn’t rather than admit that it was never as great as they built it up to be.
I’m not part of that group but their chief complaints is that:
These fans are why we’ll never see completion of a Song of Fire And Ice.
Tightly written?
Jesus, it was a joke for the most part.
If you’re going to use AI then don’t pretend you actually wrote the thing. Otherwise everyone will call you a big fat liar.
Ewh human slop