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Another key difference is the motivation for making it--I wouldn't make slop for myself for the clicks.

• spwa4 2y ago
  This is it. That's the reason. People feel like they're being disrespected when reading AI. The whole point of the internet is making people think they're being fed high-value information while the whole point of "AI slop", of course, is to be as cheap as possible when making the information. In reality value of information is of course mostly independent of whether it's AI generated or not. We're in that weird period where AI beats low-effort human writing, but still falls pretty far short of well-researched well-reasoned human effort. So a weather report written by AI will probably be better than human written, as will all information, up to a certain length, maybe up to a level of difficulty. For example, I'm learning languages and having LLama generate both lessons and correcting my responses. It is far better than any language teaching book can hope to be. I'm teaching my kids python, and having AI generate intros and correct and critique their programs ... I could beat it with enough effort, but for similar effort. And whilst AI cannot yet write a great movie script, so it isn't (yet) a global thing, most information, online and offline, isn't great quality either (and wasn't before AI). People's AI detector and disgust is about a distaste for other people thinking of them as so low-value that they should be fed cheap information. Even while, of course, they're not paying anything for the internet sites they read (and I get it, which ISPs and FANGs do make worse by giving the impression people DID in fact pay for internet sites, either by monthly payments or "clicks")