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

[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.

[wurzelmann@mastodon.wurzelmann.at]

@neil I'm with you on that hill. ✊

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@rubyjones On the consumption side, I am absolutely in a fortunate position that I can afford to pay, and see value in paying, for books, to support authors, and so on (although I suppose that I see blogs as free-to-read). Perhaps there's a circle there.

Slop has no value to me, so I would not knowingly pay for it.

But perhaps someone who doesn't value creativity or human expression would not willingly pay for it anyway, so slop is attractive enough?

(Sorry, pondering aloud here.)

[odd@mstdn.social]

@neil I haven't seen such posts here at all. Tbh it sounds like a troll because AI generated content is anything but unbiased. And in my experience, people around here are well aware of this.

That said, at work and around the internet at large I see more and more people using AI. Some because they believe in the technology, others because they feel its the normal thing to do now.