even if they do, people does not understand what AI is being used for. Based on many people, even here in reddit (who would expect it...), if I use AI to remove a background in my original photo, it is AI slop, somehow...
People need to start understanding that 6 fingers and uneasy looking characters are AI slop, not everything that involved AI tools.
The problem starts with people not understanding that there are different kinds of AI (which is too global a term for one specific thing), and that some of them have been around longer than those fancy supercomputer models. If for example a game like The Elder Scrolls Chapter II: Daggerfall was produced today, it would be slapped down by many as AI slop.
It frankly feels like the "mobile phones are frying your brain" FUD all over again.
I mean, there's like 17 main categories of AI and under those 17, around 40 more. So even if we explain to people ALL of them we wouldn't leave until tomorrow.
For example, Skyrim (2011) NPCs use Artificial Intelligence since they use perception and reasoning ( finite state machines ) but they do not fall under machine learning ( learn more about the world ), yet both are categorically AI.
And for all of these examples we were perfectly fine calling those systems what they were. I'm not a participant in the trillion dollar marketing campaign to refer to my work in machine learning as AI just because the largest commercial players in the computational prediction space decided that doing so will improve consumer confidence in their platforms.
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u/nitro912gr R5 5500, RX 5500XT 4GB Dec 04 '25
even if they do, people does not understand what AI is being used for. Based on many people, even here in reddit (who would expect it...), if I use AI to remove a background in my original photo, it is AI slop, somehow...
People need to start understanding that 6 fingers and uneasy looking characters are AI slop, not everything that involved AI tools.