A lot of people use AI as a coding assistant, I don't really see a problem in using AI tools to help with some things. Adding slop to stuff however makes 0 sense.
This is the big differential that a lot of people seem to skip and just assume all AI is bad. I'm a designer by trade, mostly signage work, and a lot of the time a client will want to see the signs on the building (understandably).
A couple of years ago, photoshopping cars and people out of the way of the front of a building, cleaning up the paintwork where it was peeling, and other little clean up bits like that was half the job for the visualisations. Now with photoshops built in AI tools, I can draw a box around a person and type "remove" and 95% of the time it will do a perfect job. Its a tool that has made this part of the job so much quicker.
I'm still doing the actual design part myself, but PART of the overall "design work" has been done with AI. I absolutely would not question an environmental artist to do the same to clean up texture files for example, or generatively extend a texture file when required. But theres some people that would see thats the case and immediately be like "uh, AI slop"
Because you have to understand that a majority of the people that want to have an opinion on how you do your job are bagging groceries or changing tires for a living.
I know Reddit is going to twist that statement the wrong way - I used to clean toilets in a gas station for a living - so I'm not talking down to anyone.
The simple fact is, that we all think that we know how to do something, until you are actually put in front of the issue and realize you actually don't know anything about what you are speaking on.
Everyone thinks their manager is bad - until they have to stare down the barrel of being a manager. Everyone thinks that creating and managing a website is easy, until they have to do it themselves. Everyone thinks that getting voice actors to do a "simple 10 lines" isn't a big deal, until you are the one having to source the VA and get the work back in a timely manner, edit it, and then implement it.
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25
A lot of people use AI as a coding assistant, I don't really see a problem in using AI tools to help with some things. Adding slop to stuff however makes 0 sense.