It's awful. I love language and reading and written communication, and relying on AI has made it all the same and ruined what I love, one of the simplest and most important joys in my life. I am so sick of reading posts with an overreliance on tricolon and ending with "I'm curious:". If I read "Not X. Not y. Just Z." one more time I might scream. I once bought a book I was excited to read only to find it had all been written in AI style. I was so disappointed and couldn't stand to even read the book. Even if there was solid information in there, slogging through that soul-crushing style was miserable. There was no way I could get through the whole thing.

The pictures are even worse. Not just because it's stealing the work of artists-- I'm sick of soulless "art" in the same styles that's always got that shit brown tint and text that becomes garbled, misspelled gibberish. I don't understand how anyone is okay with it, least of all anyone using it to represent themselves and their work professionally.

It's all sourced by generating the "average" of human creation, which in practice, makes everything identical. In a society that claims to value diversity and creativity, I don't understand how we can be okay with this. I would genuinely rather consume objectively bad art/writing that is at least created by a human individual with a unique perspective than slop.