*Edit*: here at least, I am clearly not isolated!

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

*Edit*: here at least, I am clearly not isolated!

Perhaps I am increasingly isolated in holding this position, but I have no interest in reading "AI"-generated slop.

I love reading.

I read people's blogs and toots and whatever *because people wrote them* and I want to read their own thoughts and opinions.

I buy books, and read numerous different authors. I like finding new authors, bringing new ideas, styles etc.

Same with "AI" images. I'd prefer no image at all.

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@neil I like that stance re: #AIslop:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/116224927984042017

[razemix@mamutovo.cz]

@neil Don't worry, you are not alone.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@amin In which case, perhaps I am not as isolated as I thought.

It doesn't surprise me that *some* other people have this perspective, but I wonder how common it is.

[stroobl@mastodon-belgium.be]

@neil +1. The only place where AI generated text is a useful read is generated software documentation. It works pretty good for that.

[theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@neil Definitely not alone on this.

[diffractie@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@neil I'm still trying to find the right words for why Ai stuff feels so unappealing. I think it's that they have no provenance? Theres nothing to contextualise it.

[bstacey@icosahedron.website]

@neil I also continue to hold this position.

[signaleleven@social.tchncs.de]

@neil please. Isolated? Nobody wants to read slop. Not even people who like AI for some specific application.
What prompted this lukewarm take? :)

[theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@neil (and I'll take any author recommendations you might care to share)

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@neil Absolute same

[frazzledbrynn@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@neil What I found really depressingly interesting is that I find it really fatiguing, and I already suffer from a huge amount of fatigue. All the dodging AI, my brain-fogged head working harder to filter things out, the heart sink as I get tricked and only later realise something was off.

Like recipes! Following along on my phone whilst already overwhelmed by what I'm doing, and then finding out mid-way through following a recipe that, hang on a sec, this is AI nonsense.

[kimcrawley@zeroes.ca]

@stroobl

No! 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@signaleleven

Someone was posting here about preferring "AI news" because they said that it was unbiased.

Someone posted an AI-generated "summary" of something.

More websites are using AI-generated images.

Do you not see this kind of thing?

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@FrazzledBrynn AI-generated "recipes" are indeed one of the only ways that most recipe sites could be made worse!

[wobweger@mstdn.social]

@neil 🧡
you are not alone
you're not isolated
your are in fact well connected to the human condition, having resisted years long propaganda on almost all channels
#salami slop is no good
🖖

[ahnlak@kavlak.uk]

@neil I find AI images a really strong flag that I'm not going to want to read an article.

I suspect at least part of the problem is that "experts" will tell you that a web page *has* to have an image to represent it (because that's what algorithms want), and people are panicked into finding *something* to fill that void.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@stroobl I'd prefer documentation written by a human?

[bstacey@icosahedron.website]

@FrazzledBrynn @neil Ah, damn, that's gotta suck.

I like to cook, but I don't even try looking up recipes online any more, unless they're verifiably from the pre-slop era. Fortunately, we have a shelf of cookbooks and I've gotten pretty good at winging things for a weeknight dinner.

[rubyjones@wandering.shop]

@neil Most writers and artists I know think the same, but the gap between those people and those who consume art and fiction - especially among programmers - is really depressing.