Shannon Carroll
AI slop is hitting feeds faster than anyone can scroll past it, and the pitch from the billionaires funding this generative future — Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman, etc. — hasn’t convinced their own users. It seems that people increasingly want less machine-made slop, not more of it. Now, some of the biggest social platforms are quietly offering ways to turn down the synthetic noise that they spent the last two years amplifying.
People aren’t shy about saying why they’re tired of the synthetic stuff. Fandoms are banning AI “fan art” because it flattens every character into the same glassy-eyed template, and book communities have pushed publishers into replacing covers that were quietly built from Midjourney scraps. Multiple studies keep pointing in the same direction: People want AI to help artists, not create the art; people show a clear bias against AI-generated art when they think a machine made it; and people choose human-made work even when they can’t immediately tell the difference.
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