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.
With your bigoted “if you leave Lilith behind”, I also ending this exchange here, as not even christians who were intolerant with my beliefs had ever said this kind of religion-intolerant phrase to me.
Oh, and just so you know, no, I’m not trying to pretend anything, I got no “PhD”, differently from clankers which are programmed to pretend they’re specialists on all things (it’s literally in the name for the common kind of LLM training, “Mixture of Experts” MoE). Wish you a happy chatting with the clankers!