"AI work is just as good as human work" is a statement that *always* flows from the direction of power. Employers to workers, producers to consumers, but not the reverse.
Because it's not a thing people actually believe, but an argument: slop is good enough for you; you are slop.
Because it's not a thing people actually believe, but an argument: slop is good enough for you; you are slop.
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This argument is developed at length (and righteous anger!) in a review of the Minecraft movie— https://filmfreakcentral.net/2025/04/a-minecraft-movie-2025/
It wasn't even that they were not written well from a stylistic perspective. They didn't tell me what I needed to know.
https://youtu.be/-opBifFfsMY
My problem was going to actual sites that posted how-tos generated by LLMs. If they don't include "AI Generated" at the bottom (so do!), I don't know how to avoid those.
I made it my home screen so I don't have to see any AI junk on the Google search. Just real results.
Are readers doing this? No.
The argument is "this is what you deserve, learn to like what you are given."
There's a reason that every hiring process now says front and center "you cannot use AI."
The quality bar hasn't changed, but here's a robot that makes garbage, your job is now to clean up after the robot while also doing your other job.
They're not doing it for themselves! They want to resell it to you
That is why SV is pushing hard to obliterate regulations and audits. Because code generators do not train fast enough to comply.
Like the Force resonates among the great minds of our time. 😁
Electricity production destroys the environment like AI use does.
And AI isn't going away any more than electricity did, so it's best to adapt to this new reality instead of bemoaning it.
It's technology with thousands upon thousands of use cases - some great and some truly tragic.
Demonizing AI now is as daft as demonizing electricity after humans began harnessing it.
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/first-execution-electric-chair
Right.
Humans create material other humans want, AI does not.
The option worth our time and energy is clear.
I just don't see LLM models replacing any but the worst human writers, especially fiction.
Anyway, they've been a huge help to me as a nonprofit and benefit corporation founder.