Regardless of moral usage or not, chanting ‘AI slop’ at every opportunity provides minimal benefit and doesn’t encourage the user over to our side.

Unfortunately for us, the oligarchs definitely see it as a way to pay people less

Be loud about why it’s bad

It’s a dangerous trap to fall into

There actually are. There’s at least 10.

If we cannot stop the infighting, the machines have already won.

Well you could instead say something like, “You shouldn’t use AI for images, it massively harms the environment and has a huge societal cost that we will all pay.” Engage with the person, not the content. That’s far more effective.

that energy and pressure ultimately needs to be funneled to lawmakers in order to draft and pass appropriate legislation.

100% agree

We do need tension, but not between us peasants, it needs to be between us and legislators/oligarchs.

If we cannot stop the infighting, the machines have already won.

You’ve missed the point of the post.

Not ignore, find better ways to deal with it.

Well you could instead say something like, “You shouldn’t use AI for images, it massively harms the environment and has a huge societal cost that we will all pay.”

Engage with the person, not the content. That’s far more effective.

The last one I saw made me cringe so hard I needed reconstructive surgery.

It was of a woman on a bed reading the bible to her kids while shielding them from the trans rainbow.

Yeah, I know, it hurts, I hope you have cheap medical care.

Well you could instead say something like, “You shouldn’t use AI for images, it massively harms the environment and has a huge societal cost that we will all pay.”

Engage with the person, not the content. That’s far more effective.

If it uses one of the online services, then it’s a problem (environment, water etc).

You could somewhat make that argument for local models. But not many people are going to have any conception of that

It’s not about AI, it’s about people’s reactions to AI slop.

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.

Yep I’m just playing my part trying to get us past the point where the slop is mistaken for the actual problem

Yes, but the reaction shouldn’t be to antagonise other people

It is very similar to that.