"My wife is a teacher, she used AI to help create an assignment, all the kids used AI to complete it, and now she's using AI to grade it. Nobody learned anything, nobody really did anything. What's happening?"
In that sense AI slop is a symptom, not a disease. But perhaps also a catalyst.
I really wonder if there is a sort of silver lining here, and in the long term low value activities will be filtered out of society. Though that borders on the AI maximalist view which I don't fully agree with.
Of course the glaring question is what value even is.
agree. if internet is so filled with slop. people will move away from it, start to read books, walk, hang out with each other again?
can't move away from internet when you can't earn money without it, and all the services require you to participate
can't read books if no one is going to be publishing those, after they get out-competed by cheap endless slop
no point in walking when cities are built for cars and businesses, and public spaces continue to dwindle and be defunded
can't hang out when you're too tired trying to survive