I'm a fan of generated music and have run across some generated vids I like. I've seen some really creative stuff which took existing fiction and generated vid content around that. Previously, that content simply would not have been created because it would have been way too expensive. I know I'm not the only one out there who enjoys it at times.

There is undoubtedly some performative element, how big that is who knows?

Everyone likes slop. That's why Instagram, Tiktok and Linkedin were so popular pre-AI.

They don't like slop when they're looking for non-slop and they recognise the slop, because it's not solving their problem. If they don't recognise the slop they'll just treat it as non-slop and use it, and in this case they arguably still liked it.

That doesn't refute what GP is saying at all.

If it makes you feel better, it can be rephrased as:

> Most of them are using AI for all their schoolwork while performatively hating it because "nobody likes AI slop" or some other half-understood meme

People actually do like AI slop. I run into older people all the time that think its beautiful and/or fun.