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If you insist on posting Ai slop outside of the dedicated communities for it please tag it so people can filter this slop out.
I had the idea and no other way to illustrate it for sharing.
Doesn’t excuse you not tagging it.
People don’t want to see slop and the bare minimum you can do is tag is accordingly.
How does tagging work?
People can filter out words in the title. So simply adding “GenAi” to the title is enough.
Ok. I did that. Now can you tell my why the hate on using AI? If I didn't have it I just would never have posted my original content that I found funny and sharable.
Thanks.
Do you really need to have a list of why people are sick of Ai slop?
Ai is literally making people dumber:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/
They are a massive privacy risk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg&t=3015s
https://theconversation.com/ai-tools-collect-and-store-data-about-you-from-all-your-devices-heres-how-to-be-aware-of-what-youre-revealing-251693
Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
And they are a massive environmental disaster:
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/
If you are unable to make the content yourself then it’s not worth making. Either pass the ideas onto someone that can or learn to draw and stop destroying the environment with this slop.
Some other ways:
-Take a piece of paper and a pencil and draw it, take a picture of the drawing
-Find a picture of a tree and toilets and paste them onto each other in paint, paint.net, krita, or whatever
Even if it looks like shit, it'll still:
-look better
-be better
-make you better at it
Make friends and dont rely on only yourself to make something then if you dont have the skills or the desire to put the effort into making it alone.
Its ok to use others, the scientific community is built on the theories and work of everyone that comes before us and is with us now.
If you think something deserves existing, stealing the work of others and feeling like you did it on your own is both untrue and uninteresting.