Neil BrownMar 15

*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.

Show threadBrynnbo the FrogMxstress

@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.

Mar 15 at 7:04amWeb
Show threadBlake C. StaceyMar 15

@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.

Show threadMacCruiskeen6d ago
@bstacey @FrazzledBrynn @neil I have a bookcase dedicated to cookbooks, and I've worked as a recipe editor in a cooking school. There's no way I'm giving those up for slop. Even before AI slop most online recipes were SEO garbage anyway.
Show threadJaimie's EroticaMar 15
@FrazzledBrynn @neil
Yes! The constant gatekeeping is exhausting. In my profession, it's increasingly an issue where people (lay persons and professionals alike) have used AI to draft a document which looks legit but on closer inspection turns out to be a pile of shit.