Having a calculator add numbers for you is having a machine think for you. Your computer is doing an awful lot of creative problem solving on your behalf to serve this page to you.

It sounds like you don't see a difference between thinking and creativity?

You're arguing with a bot probably. :) And I think you're right. The word 'slop' has become a lazy way to indicate that one is anti AI. Fair enough, eh?

I have a growing stable of self made 'slop'. products on my phone and computer which I use happily and productively every day to save time and provide assistance.

Calculators don't think for you any more than a slide-rule or a pen and paper does. It takes values and operations that you instruct and then all it does is the part that's entirely deterministic and repetitive. My computer is an extension of the same thing, and most of those extensions don't reflect a replacement of anyone's thinking. No one was previously able to send electronic signals and reconstruct them into web pages for example, that's a new and unique capability that augments our own. "Write my blog post or my code for me" is an entirely different prospect which yes includes, but isn't limited to creativity.