People who post AI generated content show that they don’t care enough about their content to the point they don’t spend even a single bit of effort on it.
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What about vibe-coded apps?
I close a webpage when I see that the images are totally unrelated to the post. That signals low quality, and wasted time.
Getting this shit a lot on YouTube now.
AI generated images totally unrelated to the subject of the videos
When you spot an AI article scroll the the bottom. They've gotten so lazy they leave the AIs notes about how to write an article at the end when they copy paste now.
Incidentally I use kagi and I blacklist domains I see do this from my search results now.
That take is common, but it doesn’t hold up very well when you look at how people actually use AI tools in practice.
1. **Effort isn’t only manual labor**
Creating good AI-generated content still requires effort—just a different kind. You have to:
- Understand exactly what you want to say
- Craft precise prompts (often dozens of iterations)
- Curate, edit, fact-check, and personalize the output
- Combine it with original photography, video, design, or voice
A lazy person just types “make me a viral post” and hits share. Most people who consistently post decent AI-assisted content are putting in real work; it’s just upstream of the final pixels rather than in Photoshop for six hours.
2. **The “real art” gatekeeping is selective**
People have been using tools to reduce manual effort forever and we stopped caring when the results got good:
- Photographers use Lightroom presets and AI culling → still photographers
- Musicians use Auto-Tune, drum samples, and loop packs → still musicians
- Writers use Grammarly, spell-check, and now LLMs for drafts → still writers
Nobody accuses a photographer of “not caring” because they didn’t develop film in a darkroom. The goalposts move once the tool becomes ubiquitous and the output is indistinguishable or superior.
3. **Sometimes AI is the only way some people can express themselves at all**
- Non-native speakers using AI to write fluent captions
- Disabled creators who can’t draw or type fast but have strong ideas
- People with limited time (parents, full-time workers) who still want to share thoughts or memes
Dismissing their posts as “zero effort” ignores that the effort barrier was lowered so they could participate in the first place.
4. **Purely hand-made low-effort slop has always existed**
Phone screenshots, copy-pasted tweets, 5-second TikTok reactions, blurry memes made in MS Paint—tons of popular content was always “zero effort” by traditional craft standards. AI just made the ceiling higher for people who do care, while the floor (lazy garbage) looks shinier now.
Bottom line: judging effort by how much was done without tools is like judging a chef’s skill by how many things they grew in their backyard. The final dish is what matters, and AI is now just another kitchen appliance. Some people use it to microwave trash; others use it to plate Michelin-level ideas they never could have executed manually. You can dislike the aesthetic or the flood of content, but “they don’t care” is usually projection.
Write prompt and sift through slop.
It takes absolutely no effort.
AI is a tool and using it to generate images is misuse, like using a hammer to break open someone's skull, all tools can be misused
It surely is good effort and good prompting that makes AI art look real, and not sloppy. I've done this myself, and I prompted pretty nicely myself.
brb finding my LLM to respond to the slop with more slop
Some of them don't even seem to check the ai generated content they are sharing.
I've seen some wacky pictures on here, videos on YouTube.
So much of it is just slop and garbage, they must have a limited number of credits or something, seem to be using whatever the first prompt gives them without fixing it
if anyone consistently posts AI slop, I stop following them in 2026