NOTE: I am NOT defending AI or it’s usage or anything like that. So just tie that horse right back up at the kitchen sink. I don’t like the whole AI thing. This post is not about AI.

I get that it was necessary at first, but now whenever there’s any hint of AI, there’s a great chorus of everyone saying the same thing ‘AI slop bla bla bla’ like a gaggle of sheep jerking their knees.

It’s not fucking helpful. It only sows even more division among the peasants, while the oligarchs take zero notice and continue on as usual. The correct way to engage with AI content you don’t like is just not at all.

Examples:

Recently I watched as a post for a community event was removed, because it had an AI image. The image was not requested or created by the organiser, it was provided to them, and had information in several languages. But the post was removed because AI slop and now there is less human connection happening. Yay. Well fucking done. You literally are helping the AI overlords now.

I’ve seen many actual legit digital artists getting hit with the cries of AI slop and even banned, when they have been making art for years before AI was even a thing. People actually can’t tell the difference half the time when they think they can, and end up hurting real artists.

Now is not the time to be attacking each other over using AI to generate some stupid meme. There are much, MUCH bigger issues at stake right now, and calling everything AI slop does nothing to help.

/rant

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
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      22 days ago

      GTFO. That’s a ~5,000pp science paper. You want me to try to read and understand all that instead of you doing the simple of thing of using your own words to convey your point?

      Fuck off, troll.

      • DudleyMason@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        21 days ago

        Nah, they’re right and you’re wrong here.

        The thing about long papers is they generally have an abstract right upfront that’ll bottom line all ~5000 pages in a few paragraphs.

        Your responses make it obvious that you already know exactly what point they were making and you’re being deliberately obtuse because you don’t like the point being made.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
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          21 days ago

          Please.

          That is an actual science paper in an area in which I have zero academic training and little familiarity with the relevant terminology, how that field quantifies things, and a bazillion other concerns. Sure, I might be able to spend a day’s worth of my time struggling to understand the relevant point of the paper and guessing at WTF the other commenter was wanting me to mind read, but what’s the point?

          If you’re too much of a tongue-tied freak to give a straight answer, and instead throw out some science paper and expect someone else to absorb it and guess at whatever your original point was, then… you might just be an idiot.

          And I’ve already answered concerns about AI energy consumption in this thread chain, so maybe instead of trying to ride a troll’s lack of effort, you could actually read the thread?

          Yeah, good luck with that. Later, tater.

          • bootstrap@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            21 days ago

            Haha calm down man its not that deep, you can get the gist by even just skim reading it instead of writing paragraphs of text to alleged trolls

          • DudleyMason@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            21 days ago

            And I’ve already answered concerns about AI energy consumption in this thread chain,

            Not that I could find, including looking through your comment history in case I was missing it.

            But unless your “answer” includes some peer reviewed science (like the paper you steadfastly refuse to read since you know it’ll prove you wrong) it’s not an answer so much as an excuse, or maybe even just a vibe.