@oatmeal oh man, I love this!

I hate¹ how gen-AI makes the world a poorer place because people can now get things they don't care about much cheaper, so we end up with worse things.

When you commission someone to do things, they tend to -care- about what they make and will take care to do it right.

Recently a children's book was published here, where the lion had hooves. The publisher didn't notice because, well, they didn't care. A human artist would have cared to get this right, but the world got a book with poor drawings.

Subtitles are getting increasingly worse, and it looks like LLM work because it's stuff like using the wrong word because of a lack of context. The movie gets worse because the meaning is distorted so you end up being distracted trying to make sense of it.

The thing is.. we are constantly exposed to this slop.. and I worry people are just going to get used to it.

The book was retracted and they ended up hiring an illustrator. Next time, who knows.

1) I don't use the word hate lightly but I don't know how else to put it.