There's AI slop and anti-AI slop
There's AI slop and anti-AI slop
Posted May 30, 2026 17:59 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: There's AI slop and anti-AI slop by rbranco
Parent article: Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents
People will continue to write books and it's up to the readers to decide what they want to read. Same for the other endeavours.
Except, that's not realistic. When AI slop crowds out human-written books, human-written books are hard to find (I bet most people use Amazon to discover new books, and when they see 20 AI books to 1 human book, it makes human books much less discoverable.) And so humans end up losing money. This is not just theoretical; I know authors who have complained about this very phenomenon.
And authors, mostly being self-employed, at least have some control over their destiny. Animators and other creative people working for big companies are much more at risk of losing their livelihood to AI.
AI is not special.
I disagree with that premise. AI is different for a number of reasons that I go into in depth here (for example: the fact that it's based on theft of human-created output.) I expect we'll never agree on that, though.
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