I am all for supporting local artists and I feel that “handcrafted in XXX” products make great souvenirs when you’re connected to those places. Still, if some AI hallucinated me a perfect novel for my interests, or generated something I couldnt tell was manufactured or created by a master, I would happily enjoy it.
“How can I tell if this is slop so I can know to hate it” sounds stupid to me: good is good. When it comes to art / food / products, I want the best experience for ME. If I want human connectedness, then I’ll go interact with a human directly.
I can do without wasted water, power, and money, but in the abstract it seems to bother everyone on Lemmy to enjoy something a person didn’t make. I don’t have that hang-up.
Yeah that “humans make slop too” really resonates with me.
I can also say that I wouldn’t probably travel to go see paintings made by AI since the original draw is human history for me, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t enjoy something that is well made just because of who or what made it. It’s the same kind of thing as not watching Tom Cruise movies because he’s a scientologist. Ok I guess, but if you can’t separate art from artist, basically everything will be problematic if you look deep enough.