> The reality is people don't always care if a human poured their heart and soul into something.

The reverse: sometimes people care if you do. "Caring" and "effort" tend to be good indicators.

But imagine there's some yet-undiscovered <something> that has big implications, and conditions exist for its discovery. Then someone stumbles across it, puts out a hasty tweet, walks off & doesn't look back. Took no effort whatsoever, didn't care much about it. Or maybe some AI does that.

Would that reduce the value of the message? Imho: no.

I'm hoping we'll find ways to separate the gems from mountains of slop they're buried in, that don't require AI-powered tools to wade through that slop & pick the gems. Or establish incentives to not produce all that slop in the 1st place. Not sure if that's doable or how.

But I don't care that much about AI-generated or not (although I'd prefer if stuff were marked as such). Useful, well-written, interesting, exactly what you needed, providing a new angle on a subject, innovative: that's where it's at.

Btw I'm all out of soapboxes. Would a potato crate do, in a pinch? Not gettin' a tattoo!