alt Hacker NewsYes, because if someone has a tool that creates "something incredible", then everyone will be able to generate "something incredible" and then it all becomes not incredible.
It's like having god-mode in a game, it all becomes boring very quickly when you can have whatever you want.
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> everyone will be able to generate "something incredible" and then it all becomes not incredible.
no, that's just your standard moving up.
There is an absolute scale for which you can measure, and ai is approaching a point where it is an acceptable level.
Imagine if you applied your argument to quality of life - it used to be that nobody had access to easy, cheap clean drinking water. Now everybody has access to it. Is it not an incredible achievement, rather than it not being incredible just because it is common?
That quote from the movie "the incredibles", where the villain claims that if everybody is super, then nobody is, was your gist of the argument. And it is a childish one imho.
If you follow that reasoning, anything that improves or anything that makes creation easier, produces slop.
Personally I'm not in favor of calling AI output slop, just because it is AI generated. You might then as well say that any electronic music is slop and any food prepared with help of machinery is crap. It might be crap or not, the automatedness is irrelevant.
The outputs of AI that I see today in the form of text, images or video don't look like slop to me.