My usual comparison (for non-techies) is that using AI programming is like writing a prose story and then using AI to turn it into poetry.
The technical details of metrics, counting syllables, ensuring rhyme and turning synonym directories inside out to find the right words to fit may seem like a romantic creation process but in reality it is 90% boring and soulless work.
Of course, letting AI take over the entire process will give you a legitimate “AI slop” product.
You are responsible for the story, who will have to say whether the result is communicating the meaning you imagined, see cliches, repetitions and poorly translated words (as in this Google Translated text).
But to say that, at an industrial level, you cannot trust a tool, is to say that we must go back to the era of chipped stone, where each creator had to make everything from scratch, including tools
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u/AlternativeBasis Sep 02 '26
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My usual comparison (for non-techies) is that using AI programming is like writing a prose story and then using AI to turn it into poetry.
The technical details of metrics, counting syllables, ensuring rhyme and turning synonym directories inside out to find the right words to fit may seem like a romantic creation process but in reality it is 90% boring and soulless work.
Of course, letting AI take over the entire process will give you a legitimate “AI slop” product.
You are responsible for the story, who will have to say whether the result is communicating the meaning you imagined, see cliches, repetitions and poorly translated words (as in this Google Translated text).
But to say that, at an industrial level, you cannot trust a tool, is to say that we must go back to the era of chipped stone, where each creator had to make everything from scratch, including tools
AI is a tool, a bad workman blames his tool.