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Creative taste is a much rarer thing to have than it seemed if AI slop is so popular to generate and consume
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German The Jackal pawb.social german@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-29
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JeeBaiChow lemmy.world JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-04
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Is it popular to consume though? I mean, aside from porn. Search is pretty much dead because of it.

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otacon239 lemmy.world otacon239@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-10-07
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Is it popular to consume though? I mean, aside from porn. Search is pretty much dead because of it.

The Fediverse is a subset of a subset of the social internet and hardly represents reality. I work in an industry that prints customer art and it’s way more common than I’d like to admit. Thankfully we’re not the ones generating the art, but I always want to tell customers to stick it when they bring their garbage generated crap in.

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𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 lemmy.world Witchfire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-07
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Is it popular to consume though? I mean, aside from porn. Search is pretty much dead because of it.

Outside of our bubbles, people are fucking horny for AI slop

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nightwatch_admin lemmy.world nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-17
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It is popular to generate, not necessarily popular to consume. There’s some research showing clearly that most people hate ai and its slop, but that they also use it to make content. It was present in all genders and ages etc. Very peculiar.

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AbouBenAdhem lemmy.world AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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The Fediverse is a subset of a subset of the social internet and hardly represents reality. I work in an industry that prints customer art and it’s way more common than I’d like to admit. Thankfully we’re not the ones generating the art, but I always want to tell customers to stick it when they bring their garbage generated crap in.

Customers having their own AI-generated art printed isn't consumption, though—how many people are getting prints of art that someone else generated?

I think generating AI slop from their own prompts feels empowering to people because it’s still closer to what they had in their heads than anything they could have created otherwise. But on the consuming end, it becomes clear that there’s no actual information content that couldn’t have been conveyed more easily by the source text.

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TranquilTurbulence lemmy.zip TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-05-19
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If you’re generating something for yourself, you probably have some standards. If you’re generating it for something you don’t really care about, the criteria for “good enough” suddenly take a hit. If you’re working on some soulless ads for a brand you don’t care about, basically any trash will do as long as the client won’t strangle you.

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Rugnjr lemmy.blahaj.zone Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-11-10
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Take the time to tag users who use it. I generally find its the same assholes posting dozens to hundreds of times a day, rather than a widespread lack of morals

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Stormy thelemmy.club Stormy@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-02-16
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Outside of our bubbles, people are fucking horny for AI slop

Where? In what fields? I hate ai commercials, I don't like the generated images on menus, where are people liking it?

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