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Demanding a rational explanation for why something is considered tacky is a tacky look

This community is mostly based around sharing ideas, not feelings.

That's a fallacy. This community is rational. Feelings are exactly as rational as ideas. You can use feelings to express irrationality - but as humans, we are 100% composed of feelings. Every rational thought we have is rooted in feelings. It's completely valid and interesting to talk about the feelings of some technology's impact, especially regarding visual art.

Pretty wild equivocation

by redefining "rational" to include anything originating from human biology, you conflate the origin of a thought with its logical validity

While its true that humans are biological entities influenced by emotion, "rationality" refers to a specific process of evaluating claims based on logic and evidence. to claim that feelings are "exactly as rational" as ideas simply because they share a common source in the brain is a category error. it’s like arguing that a car's exhaust is "exactly as functional" as its engine because both are composed of the same metal.

The fact (not feeling) is that most people feel a certain way about AI slop.

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