Comment by Apocryphon
7 hours ago
I don’t deny that there’s more slop than ever, but I would argue that this is a quantitative issue not a qualitative one, because frankly, the Internet has been drowned in slop for over a decade now. Those creative industries have had to deal with a lot of low quality content (some bot-generated even before LLMs!) for a while now.
So the central challenge has always been the same: discoverability is the difficulty. It’s just even harder now, and we need to find ways to promote the good stuff.
The shit that sucks is amplified, and the benefit is that a narrow slice of people can make money out of amplifying the shit that sucks.
Thankfully, people are paid by the value they provide and not by the enjoyment they get out of their work.
AI will make things cheaper and more abundant - at the cost of a few people not enjoying their jobs. So what.
You people don't care about human mastery or excellence at all. So what if we produce more stuff cheaper and faster? That wasn't the problem. We're making it harder for people to get rewarded for genuine effort and dedication and in exchange for alienating us from our work we get a lot of lower quality crap. It sucks!
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What's the point, if all that "abundance" does is make our lives worse?
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