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What is your argument here? That because Ticktock and the like use up huge amounts of energy for their slop that is fine for AI to do the same? Because I could just reply with:
"Social media isn't the issue, it's humans."
And what AI output isn't slop?
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.