Post #4490900 · Elektrine

2026-08-07 09:17 UTC

I say, this is a fantastic article. So many truths. Also, a recurring topic these last couple of days, it saddens me that these days when people do NOT agree with something they lazily say "AI slop". To anything/everything. They proclaim they have seen the obvious, which means everyone else thinks "oh...really...ok, yeah! I see it too now!" instead of actually reading the content. I don't post often on LinkedIn (for a good reason) but my very last post was about exactly that: if a writer these days care about making a point, and uses bullet points, bold, cursive etc to emphasize words, they will be called "ai slop" nowadays. On LinkedIn that is extra troublesome as it is literally riddled with AI slop, and I mean the obvious kind. But it kills it for those of us that actually type stuff with our own little fingers. https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left#post-mortem #ai #writing #observations #truth

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@mathias@sharkey.world 2026-08-07 09:34

On the topic of "detecting" or "noticing" AI, I saw the other day that even artists like @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org is now being accused by online commenters of using AI. When he doesn't. We all know that. He's been at it (and active on the Fediverse for years), doing his thing, since 2014 for god sake. Completely free. Using only free software. Long before AI was at the state it is today. Now, if AI these days can mimic an artist, such as David, and his style, that is one thing. But to call every human-made creation, including Davids, "AI slop" is a slippery slope indeed. Who will create new things for AI to replicate if all the creators are pushed away as AI by lazy people? Will the future only have AI generated by other AI, generated by AI etc? It is a bleak outlook, no? https://www.peppercarrot.com/xx/webcomics/peppercarrot.html https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai

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