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I think their complaint is more that it’s an umbrella term applied a bit loosely (like plain old “AI”). Most people, even non-technical people, seem to instinctively understand that there’s some sort of machine learning (or a novel type of less rigid processing) behind their chatbots and image generators, but most of them also seem to think it’s one artificial entity that does the whole thing. So non-technical ChatGPT users are likely to think all of the different features (like asking it in text to generate an image) are one “consciousness” instead of a text environment and an image environment that sort of interface with each other. And then each of these is made of different parts. It’s all one product (I think we both agree it shouldn’t be one)

I think the person you’re replying to doesn’t like the term for the same reasons I do, it’s quite blatantly just a marketing term, a buzzword to swat away like an angry wasp. But it is the most descriptive and succinct term that most people know. I’m quite conflicted on this. “Taking a few pulls at the slop machines” is a fun way to shit on someone else abdicating their responsibility by using machine generated content en lieu of their brains, mostly in a context where their brains are needed, but “slop machine” is too accusatory. In the same way, I find “GenAI” just a little too permissive or possibly enthusiastic about what is claimed these algorithms even do.

If it was totally down to me I would probably add multiple tags: “Machine generated text”, “Machine generated images”, “Machine generated audio”. It keeps the distinctions I think are necessary (text ≠ thought/analysis, image ≠ artistic expression, etc) and gives us a few more toggles and a bit more statistical information that would be nice.

This comment dragged on a bit longer than I’d set out to write.

I think the issue is that it's not that much generative nor intelligent

SC - synthetic content

Names the problem without relying on their marketing

But 😅 my point is mainly about using a correct technical term, instead of the forced marketing buzzword "AI"

(Thanks for taking the time to answer!)

But, on the other hand, using a better term in the UI is a step towards (at least some) people starting to use or at least be aware of other terms; "catching on" is a result of people and UIs using it! 😉

And something less technical, like "Generative technology" would also be clear 😁

I disagree. Laughing at an AI-gened meme might be unpleasant (upon later realization) but it's still better than wrongly accusing a person of using genAI. Especially if they work really hard on their craft and thus treat it like an important part of themselves. Artists already experience a lot of accusation under even their most human art.

People will never follow the rules. I mean some will but you can never count on all doing so.

Indeed

People can block an entire community, preferring others instead where the mods keep out those kinds of posts. Nothing is perfect but this is a new tool that has potential to help people get what they want. e.g., is there anything wrong with NSFL posts, or bots, so long as they are properly labeled as such? If this tool helps organize at least some of the mess, then it can be helpful some of the time?

Ofc, only in PieFed communities, and for people with PieFed accounts. Though if Lemmy likes the idea then perhaps it can add it as well (same for Mbin, nodeBB, flarum, pixelfed, Mastodon, Loops, etc.).