> Why care whether something is AI slop or human slop? It’s not worth reading in either case.
That's not always true, and this is one of the fundamental points of human communication that all the people pushing for AI as a comms tool miss.
The act of human communication is highly dependent on the social relationships between humans. My neighbor might be incapable of producing any writing that isn't slop, but it's still worth reading and interpreting because it might convey some important beliefs that alter my relationship with my neighbor.
The problem is, if my neighbor doesn't write anything other than a one sentence prompt, doesn't critically examine the output before giving to me, it violates one of the basic purposes of human to human communication—it is effectively disingenuous communication. It flies in the face of those key assumptions of rational conversation outlined by Habermas.
That's not always true, and this is one of the fundamental points of human communication that all the people pushing for AI as a comms tool miss.
The act of human communication is highly dependent on the social relationships between humans. My neighbor might be incapable of producing any writing that isn't slop, but it's still worth reading and interpreting because it might convey some important beliefs that alter my relationship with my neighbor.
The problem is, if my neighbor doesn't write anything other than a one sentence prompt, doesn't critically examine the output before giving to me, it violates one of the basic purposes of human to human communication—it is effectively disingenuous communication. It flies in the face of those key assumptions of rational conversation outlined by Habermas.