The Shy Girl Controversy
I've been following the controversy surrounding the horror novel Shy Girl in horrified awe. I don't have any problem in principle with writing with AI. I care about how good the material actually is and not whether it was written in the old-fashioned way or prompted. I think that there is a lot of anti-AI prejudice out there that will not even consider anything that was created with AI. To take a random example from Goodreads, " There's no value for me to art that a human didn't create. " In other words, no form of prompt engineering or editing outputted AI counts as creation. The term "AI slop" was coined because of work that was (1) created with AI and (2) of inferior quality. As such, humans are every bit as capable of producing slop as AI is. And a low-effort AI prompt is almost guaranteed to produce slop. Nevertheless, some people use the word "slop" to tag anything that was created with AI, which is where I draw the line. Just as on...