Still this idea that making a vending machine spit out the work of other people slightly remixed doesn't sound like democratization, but just pointless masquerading as someone else's achievements. By generating work based on other people's work one is taking valuable time from them.

What is the point of making visual media if the maker doesn't want to engage in anything that is visual about the media? What is the point of making music if the person making it doesn't want to engage with anything musical? they just want to just write a prompt. There is no vulnerability or personality. There is nothing that feels tangibly human behind it.

during the start of the internet, the social convention was created that entering a chat or an online space in order to spew unwanted mindless information was aggressive disruptive behavior that needed to be moderated off. I am starting to see AI generations in the same vein: producing mindless material and filling the internet with it is a new form of spamming and i hope more people will start to push back on it. Using precious resources to have a vending machine produce media without thought or process sounds the same as pressing the enter button over and over again on the same message on a chat room to get attention.

Also this argument erases centuries of achievements made by neuro divergent and disabled artists. People who painted without hands or had serious disabilities and still made art. I invite you to look into outsider art, and transgressive writing and art. You will find a lot of disabled and neuro divergent people putting work and effort into their art in those spaces. The worse part is AI slop could potentially hurt those people because it homogenizes and clogs the creative industries. AI generation dampens valuable voices that bring much needed diverse perspectives to our shared human subjectivity. Because these creators are working in more fragile conditions. These are people that are poor, have disabilities, or come from fragile backgrounds. The spam of AI generations might be killing their opportunity to get their work out there in the first place.