Is there some form of machine learning that doesn't produce horrifically bad slop that everyone who isn't me is using?

Because there are quite a few people who appear, externally, to be somewhat intelligent who think that AGI is right around the corner when trillions of dollars in hardware and hundreds of terawatt hours of electricity can't produce anything of value-- except addictive social media distractions suitable as a medium into which marketing messages can be injected.

A constant feed of LLM trash writing and deep learning garbage images isn't AGI.

It isn't even close.

If anything, all of the brains being sucked into this vortex who are chasing "dat cash" because using GPUs to trick people into buying dropshipped shit is more profitable than actual research, has set back AGI by decades.