General Discussion

I use the term "AI slop" - and it's used a lot, but NOT overused - because that IS the standard term for it. I didn't invent the term. I can narrow a Google search for the term down just to what's been posted or published online in the last hour, and there are still lots of search results.

If you think people using a standard term "have literal slop for brains" you really don't understand how language works.

I'm not "obsessed" with the issue of the harm done by generative AI. I am concerned about it.

It's an important issue, period, and should be recognized as such by liberals because these are fundamentally unethical tools, illegally trained on stolen intellectual property, created and controlled by oligarchs exploiting workers and artists.

It's wrecking education. That's an issue liberals are supposed to care about.

It's harming the environment. It's increasing wealth inequality. It's increasing surveillance. It's increasing disinformation and misinformation of all types. It's increasing deepfake porn and child porn. It's increasing scams and fraud of all types.

All issues liberals are supposed to care about.

I don't know if I'm moving the needle here, but there are a lot of recs for this OP, and a lot of people on this board who hate genAI and AI slop.

The same could be said for almost every issue discussed here. That hasn't stopped posting about those issues.

The objections to my posts about AI seem to come mostly from people using genAI when they don't have to, who find genAI amusing or convenient and don't want to be reminded that the industry is built on theft, and that it's badly flawed technology and causes a lot of harm.

They would like a polite pretense to spare them dealing with those facts, so they can post board messages they didn't write, and images and video and music they didn't create, without any reminder that the world's intellectual property was stolen by oligarchs to make that pretense of thought and creativity possible.