I agree with you, but can we stop yelling about it for five minutes?

People posting AI slop to the internet is annoying, but not as much as people complaining non-stop about AI.

I get it, AI companies are shitty, and their reach is menacing. Anyone that knows how technology influence legislation and society can easily understand that. I'm worried about it too.

But lately, almost every content creator in the creative space launches into a diatribe against AI halfway through a video. No new arguments, the same thing every time. It's tiring.

I'm mostly on your side. The part where I'm not is this:

We can't ask regular people not to use something that allows them to "make" things that were previously out of their reach. It's unrealistic.

Why would I ask my friends to invest months in learning a design tool to design their kid's birthday invites when an AI tool gets them a result that it's 80% the quality of a professional designer's work in literal seconds? And, by the way, that 80% is a 100% from their perspective.

It's not going to happen.

Yes, the internet is filled with slop. But before, when social media came up, it filled with hate speech and shitty jokes and rage-bait. This is not worse, it's only that it's spilling out of social media into every corner of the internet, because if it can be done, why wouldn't it be done?

I hate it, too, but it is what it is.

This is why many of us have blogs and indie websites in the first place, to stay in our own lane, on our own terms. I personally started because marketing articles and SEO practices broke the internet for me back in the 00s.

Funnily enough, I ended up working in online marketing and SEO practices for 10 years. I tried to be ethical, though.

Let's do our own thing, lead by example and maybe educate if we're interested in trying to have a better place.

But raging at regular people is both mean and useless.