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 if you don’t just use it explaining it to you sure. Heck you can even do that but have it give its sources and actually look through the sources. Seeing bad sources can even be educational. Granted there are people who can’t evaluate a source on material they do not know. That is a skill unto itself. I would say you can skip the middle man and just start with youtube videos but now the search is posisoned with a bunch of, ironically, all the ai slop.