Blindly Assuming AI-Generated Content Is Slop Essentially Encourages It
Note: The content is written by AI, but the draft behind it was written by me and has also been reviewed. AI is only used to convey my ideas more accurately without spelling or grammar errors.
I discovered AI, and I find it very useful. It saves me from a lot of tedious, boring, repetitive work, allowing me to focus on truly creative aspects. Of course, I also dislike content that is generated with little thought using AI—truly poor quality "slop." But I think that's their problem. It's their lack of effort. Whether they use AI or not, if they don't put in the effort, they won't produce good results. So it's them who create slop, not AI.
However, I've noticed that now, as soon as you use AI, everyone assumes the quality is poor. They don't actually look at the quality. Just using AI is seen as a mistake. Even if I put thought into creative ideas and designs, compared multiple different outputs, and selected the best one—if my creativity were poor and you judged it as such, I'd accept that. But that's not the case. It's because I used AI, so regardless of the actual result, it's automatically considered bad.
At this point, I can't help but think: If, as long as I use AI, they assume the quality is poor regardless of my effort, then why bother putting in the effort? It's useless anyway. I don't want to give up AI and do all the boring or tedious work myself, but if using AI—whether I put in effort or not—will get me labeled as producing slop, then why should I try?
After having this thought and reviewing it rationally, I realize that blindly dismissing everything made with AI as slop essentially pushes people who would use AI but also put thought into creativity and fine-tuning to actually produce slop. In essence, they are encouraging this behavior.
