I’m wondering what some of you in this sub think of all the anti-AI sentiment going around. It’s become incredibly popular to hate on AI. Personally, I find this very frustrating—perhaps more frustrating as AI gets better and better. It feels like this is mainly an emotional response rather than one grounded in any type of rational thought. People are either upset that they are being replaced or upset that something without the “human” element is able to produce material that rivals that of a living, breathing person. I’ve noticed that if people suspect that anything you produce may have had some kind of AI influence, they immediately attack you. The term “AI slop” is constantly thrown around in this regard. I wrote this post entirely without the help of AI, but I’ll often use AI to write Reddit posts. I’ll come up with a premise and several arguments or ideas and then, for the sake of time, toss them into an LLM and ask for a paragraph in return. Even though all of the ideas are mine and artificial intelligence has simply served as a method of communicating them, I’ll still get called out, shamed, etc., even when I confirm that the ideas are my own and that I did the critical thinking. As a former Philosophy major, I frequently use AI to help me understand complex texts. In my opinion, it’s become good enough to replace your average university TA in that regard. I’m currently reading Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons, and artificial intelligence has been incredibly useful. Yet, I’m still constantly running into people who think it’s ridiculous that I would rely on AI for this and that it can’t possibly replace a real human explaining these concepts to me in person. In reality, it’s often much better. I’m just wondering at what point in AI evolution we’re going to stop calling things “slop.” When we have walking and talking robotic counterparts that perform all the functions of a human being, is it still going to be slop? submitted by /u/Turbulent-Many1472
Originally posted by u/Turbulent-Many1472 on r/ArtificialInteligence