I don’t care if it’s in a shitposting community, a meme community, or a news community. If the image or text is generated it should be labeled as such, and failing to label it should be grounds to remove the post. AI slop is a plague and its only going to get worse as the tech matures (if it hasn’t already peaked).
I’m so tired of having to call it out every time I see it, especially when people in the comments think it’s a photoshop work or (heavens help us) real. Human labor has real tangible value that plagiarism machines can’t even pretend to imitate and I’m sick of seeing that shit without it being labeled (so I can filter it out).
AI doesn’t reproduce individual works the way plagiarism does. It’s not like it’s pulling out someone’s article and copying it. It’s trained on patterns — like how a person who reads hundreds of books starts to pick up how stories are structured, but doesn’t memorize them word-for-word.
If AI is trained on copyrighted material without permission, there’s a real argument about whether that’s fair or exploitative, but that’s more of a legal and ethical issue than a plagiarism one.