this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2026
26 points (55.6% liked)

Unpopular Opinion

9519 readers
821 users here now

Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!

How voting works:

Vote the opposite of the norm.

If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.

Guidelines:

Tag your post, if possible (not required)

  • If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
  • If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].

Rules:

1. NO POLITICS

Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.

2. Be civil.

Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...

Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.

5. No trolling.

This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.

6. Defend your opinion

This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.

Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
JonsJava@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
Dremor@lemmy.world
26
The anti AI slop crowd needs to shut the fuck up (lemmy.nz)
submitted 3 weeks ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
125 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

NOTE: I am NOT defending AI or it's usage or anything like that. So just tie that horse right back up at the kitchen sink. I don't like the whole AI thing. This post is not about AI.

I get that it was necessary at first, but now whenever there's any hint of AI, there's a great chorus of everyone saying the same thing 'AI slop bla bla bla' like a gaggle of sheep jerking their knees.

It's not fucking helpful. It only sows even more division among the peasants, while the oligarchs take zero notice and continue on as usual. The correct way to engage with AI content you don't like is just not at all.

Examples:

Recently I watched as a post for a community event was removed, because it had an AI image. The image was not requested or created by the organiser, it was provided to them, and had information in several languages. But the post was removed because AI slop and now there is less human connection happening. Yay. Well fucking done. You literally are helping the AI overlords now.

I've seen many actual legit digital artists getting hit with the cries of AI slop and even banned, when they have been making art for years before AI was even a thing. People actually can't tell the difference half the time when they think they can, and end up hurting real artists.

Now is not the time to be attacking each other over using AI to generate some stupid meme. There are much, MUCH bigger issues at stake right now, and calling everything AI slop does nothing to help.

/rant

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, I wouldn't want people to stay silent about it, either.

I mean the event post is kind of a relatable example. But there is a good way to deal with it. Removing the human-written(?) text because of an attached image seems to be too much to me. We could ,though, just send some backlash. Have it stay there but the first post is always some "Slop image" comment with a healthy dose of upvotes.

I've been in similar situations before. You'd have an event that targets artists amongst other people. And for some reason the organizers think it needs to go with some slop image... But wtf? Don't they know lots of artists don't agree with the way those generative AI models are made? Why affront their target audience? What we did, wasn't boycott them. But we sure demanded an explanation. Which was: It was quicker to cook up something with AI, than talk to the humans who've drawn the promotion pictures in the time before.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 weeks ago

And for some reason the organizers think it needs to go with some slop image…

Yeah that is so stupid, I would believe that it probably happened at some point.