I couldn't disagree more. Every anti-AI argument I read has the same tired elements - that AI produces slop (is it?) that is soulless (really?). That the human element is lost (are you sure?). As most arguments of the form "hey everyone else, stop being excited about something" typically go, I find these to be dispassionate -- not passionate. What is there to get excited about when your true goal is to quash everyone else's excitement?

Whereas I find pro-AI arguments to be finding some new and exciting use case for AI. Novelty and exploration tend to be exciting, passion-inducing topics. It's why people like writing about learning Rust, or traveling.

At least that's my experience.

You really did not run into a single argument against A"I" because of plagiarism, copyright infringement, LLM-induced mental illness, destruction of critical thinking skills, academic cheating, abuse of power / surveillance, profiling, censorship, LLM-powered harassment/stalking/abuse, industrialized lying, etc?

llm tool show-and-tell is great. i seek it out and participate. there's not much to discuss

i also think learning rust and traveling is fun to do, but boring to discuss with people who werent there. these topics fall under the category of describing a dream. theyre only compelling to the person, or people if pair programming, who experienced it. could be a "me" thing

did Brian Eno make art with his doc's application of ai? or is Eno in the artistic out-group now? im not cool enough to keep up with this stuff. citing Eno is probably proof of my lack-of-cool. this topic is more interesting than talking about Ghidra MCP, which is the most novel application of an LLM ive experienced. i want to read the argument against Eno's application of AI as art

managers who don't understand the technicalities of what their engineers are doing only need a status update or strategy to /sound/ smart: they judge by smell. everything under the surface veneer is bullshit.

it's smart mobile text prediction. nothing more. slop is if you asked it to write the same, identical essay, and it came out with no personality, just the same bullet points, the same voicing... everything unique about the creator, everything correct about the profession, are lost. it's a cheap mcdonalds burger.

lmao ai generated response