Why these super-pro-AI people take this as such a personal slight is strange to me. You didn't care enough to actually make something, what are you offended if I tell you I don't really want to look at it?
And the tools are going to get better too.
Your comment is an example of what the parent comment is discussing; the reflexive "you can't really tell and anyway you can do it better to stop people being able to tell and also soon it will be better so no one will be able to tell" is a gallop like the narcissist's prayer.
People are telling you they can tell, and that they do care. The toupee fallacy works because there are good wigs that no one can identify unless told, but the idea that that there's actually brilliant AI prose (that no one has detected) always lacks examples.
> "People are telling you they can tell, and that they do care."
In the same spirit, one could argue that "AI Slop" is actually constructive feedback to a small degree. It's a short-hand for "this is sloppy/low-effort/unskilled work with obvious utilization of generative AI tools". It's not much different than using the same photography filter for every post on Instagram or picking the most popular Wordpress theme --- if you are expecting praise for that then you will be disappointed.
The kids are alright.
I mean you're rather boldly skipping over the part where the former is a proven phenomenon (though I would say it's more nuanced than true or false but there's too much to unpack there) versus something that, as yet, I have not experienced.
> You can still want human music for the human reason, but you won't be able to tell them apart.
I will pepsi challenge any media you like, from the most powerful models you like, happily.
And I'm only willing to even entertain images in terms of said challenge. The music and video are so fucking obvious, just absolutely glaringly AI when they are that I don't feel the need to even dignify it with a test. As yet, I've seen some images that certainly get close, but there are always tells in my experience.
You make it a personal slight when you espouse, that your aesthetic preferences are universal and then farther malign people with different preferences by saying that they are not aesthecticly minded.
Good thing I didn't say that then.
> You make it a personal slight when you espouse, that your aesthetic preferences are universal and then farther malign people with different preferences by saying that they are not aesthecticly minded.
Aesthetics are just taste and taste is subjective and will vary by person. That said you can, broadly, achieve "good" or "bad" aesthetics based on opinions at scale. The predominant opinion right now is that AI art is bad. You feel what you feel about that, but numerous prominent people, numerous companies who provide services, etc. are all responding to the fact that people find AI art ugly in a variety of ways. Any stock photo site I use has an option to filter AI art, and if it doesn't I don't use it. Projects in the public space that are outed for using it get backlash. Various social media sites are demonetizing generated content.
And to be clear, me saying people are not aesthetically minded is not meant as an insult. Plenty of people I respect do not care how shit looks or feels. But they are a minority in my experience, and frankly, anyone working in an even remotely creative field probably does care. YMMV.
Be that as it may, though, aesthetics do matter to a lot of people, even if they don't discuss it openly or lack the vocabulary to do so. People will say it just "feels wrong," or it's "soulless." It seems to activate our brains very similarly to things deep in the Uncanny Valley, where it looks allllmoooost right, but then fumbles something subtle in a way that makes it off-putting in retrospect.
I don't think we'll ever get rid of AI entirely. I think it will remain in the margins as cheap solution-oriented ways to make graphics, and maybe video again if they can ever figure out how to make it profitable. But I have a feeling an AI video commercial would run on TV in a similar time-slot to recycled Billy Mays ads, and with similar function: cheap, already there, get the job done, and the audience is not discriminating. It's "fine" in the broadest sense of the word.
Just go full American Psycho eggshell business card.