Have you seen how far it’s come in just a few short months though? It’s incredible the pace they’ve been achieving.
Developers present AI like it’s static and in its final form. No vulnerabilities or mistakes will ever get fed back into the training data. Everything will be direct to production. Their entire world is updates and new features until AI gets brought up. And “slop”. That’s their “woke”.
No AI developer presents it like it’s static and in its final form. None. Not one of them. They are all racing for market share. We’re seeing leaps and bounds of improvements in the shortest of timeframes, even in the open source sector.
And this zealotry doesn’t even take into account that…humans make mistakes too. Much more than AI generates ‘slop’, there are a million garbage artists out there that produce complete trash. There are millions of people on the internet generating bad advice (Where’s Mankrik’s wife?).
I’ve seen people with this same attitude, attribute things incorrectly to AI slop because someone used an em-dash somewhere in their reply. So not only can’t the detractors actually tell what’s AI or not, their fundamentalist attitudes lead them to perceive every mistake as “AI SLOP”.
I feel like on image/video generation, I can agree that the recent months have shown a lot of progress.
I’m not so much feeling it on the text generation front, it’s felt about the same to me for a while here, notably impressive, but still a bit… off…
Probably there is a lower ceiling in text generation to things that are considered “progress” by everyone. People can verbalize exactly what is wrong with pictures and video, but for text, if it is coherent and gets the point across what is progress beyond passing the Turing test?
yeah, I think the OP’s take is really naive
the tools and models will get a lot better, but more importantly the end products that succeed will make measured, judicious use of AI.
there always has been slop, and people will always misuse tools and create abominations, but the heights of greatness that are possible are increasing with AI, not decreasing
I’m not even steeped in the depths of it. I’ve got friends who are using MCP and agents that can modify files on their own and work through problems over time and self-learn on your existing code, etc.
It’s crazy and makes my head spin. Many of them were super skeptical early on but the tools that are being developed are absolutely BONKERS.
bUt aI iS tHe fUtUrE!!11111
i mean it literally is, this hot take from 2023 is already out of date with veo3
and this is after 2 years, can’t even imagine how incredible it will be in 20 or 30 years
How is a complaint about script quality somehow disproven by Veo 3, a video generation AI?
Did you ask an AI to come up with a reply?
Do half of you realise you would get better quality discussion if you weren’t so cunty
The current models depend on massive investment into server farms. They aren’t generating profit, and probably can’t. When the companies involved realize it’s not going to happen, they’ll pull it all. That will generate a new AI winter, and in 20 or 30 years, maybe the pieces will be picked up and the field will go through another summer cycle. This sort of boom/bust cycle has happened before in AI.
And no, self-hosted models aren’t going to make up for it. They aren’t as powerful, and more importantly, they will never be able to drive mass market adaptation.
The current models depend on massive investment into server farms
I hate to tell you this but your knowledge of AI appears to be limited to 2023 ;)
You missed the entire Deepseek fiasco which basically put an end to the “just order more chips” strategy of AI
Chinese company DeepSeek made waves earlier this year when it revealed it had built models comparable to OpenAI’s flagship products for a tiny fraction of the training cost. Likewise, researchers from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and Stanford University claim to have trained a model for as little as US$50.
Or if you’d like to read an absolutely mega article on it: https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/
And no, self-hosted models aren’t going to make up for it. They aren’t as powerful, and more importantly, they will never be able to drive mass market adaptation
Both Samsung and Apple have on device AI already, you’ve not seen the Apple ad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL88A5F9V3k
They’re only planning more and more features using it
They aren’t as powerful
We’ve had insane gains in locallama’s since 2022, including but not limited to this from the other day https://lemmy.world/post/30442991
And every few weeks a newer and improved model comes out, I’ve never seen tech so amazing and progress so fast as I have AI
How dystopian, you mean. Companies will try to replace as many jobs as possible with AI, meaning everything gets considerably worse in quality and reliability, and there won’t be any new jobs to replace the old ones, leading to drastic unemployment everywhere. The only ones they won’t be able to replace are the jobs that actively destroy your body from doing them. Every mainstream social media will be flooded with shitty AIs pretending to be human, so people don’t form any real connections and are easier to manipulate via tweaking their AI “friends” a bit. Any government that doesn’t pass Anti-AI laws will find their bureaucracy jammed by a glut of AI generated proposals. Legal trials will become a sham as any evidence you need can just be generated, no need for the truth. Our current actors will be turned into AI versions, and then every movie created by that company forevermore will use only those AIs because it’s cheaper. The education system is already being completely circumvented by people generating answers to their work, so they don’t learn anything. Neither humans nor AIs are ready for how hard they’re trying to shove this stuff into everything.
Companies will try to replace as many jobs as possible with AI, meaning everything gets considerably worse in quality and reliability, and there won’t be any new jobs to replace the old ones
lol that’s not how capitalism works
Dear lord. No day without more AI hype. I really need to get a link where all the horrors of ai are summarized so I can post it with low effort as it is to hype it.
I’ve been convinced that scripts for several big budget films over the last few years have already been written by LLMs. Scripts for things like The Marvels and the last 2 Mission Impossible films (just the first couple that immediately come to mind) are stream-of-consciousness slop with inconsistent logic, jargon that makes no god damn sense, side characters and tangents that come out of nowhere and do nothing, and really forced 'member berries, because as Jay from RLM puts it; “nostalgia is the new cocaine!”
I unironically think nic cage would kill it in a parody of this idea. Randomly gets and loses a prosthetic finger between scenes. The background changes slightly randomly. And instead of a full script he’s given the equivalent of a prompt for each scene and just has to “figure it out”
“Also, regarding the white genocide in south Africa…”
