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I'm saying trying to dismiss all AI usage with the energy usage argument is disingenuous if you don't have a similar issue with social media.
The truth is that you've read someone else saying it and latched onto to it.
As for "what AI output isn't slop?", come on - literally anything can be bad, generated by AI or not. I personally use AI for spotting bugs in code - it's good. I also use AI to generate complex XSLT and regexes - it's very good at that.
Is it 100% correct all of the time? Of course not, but it gets it right on the first try far more often than a person would, in a fraction of the time.
I built a tool that generates MCQs from a given text for revision - it's extremely useful.
I use it for translations when I want to read something a different language. Is it perfect, again no, but it's better than I am, and it allows me to understand the text.
Also, AI is in everything already - your camera app, the Google suite, even your car if you have TSR.
AI itself isn't the problem - it's the people who create slop that are.