"The majority of human production has always been slop. Mediocrity is not a bug of technology; it is the baseline of cul...

"The majority of human production has always been slop. Mediocrity is not a bug of technology; it is the baseline of culture. The canon of art we revere today – those few thousands works in museums and textbooks – is the surviving tip of an immense iceberg of forgotten, derivative, or simply boring creations.An artistic medium often begins in scarcity and ends in abundance. When a tool becomes accessible, it multiplies not only creativity but also repetition. Oil painting, once the privilege of guilds and courts, flooded the world with saints and still lifes as soon as pigments became cheaper. The printing press multiplied pamphlets, gossip, and devotional kitsch alongside poetry. Photography industrialized portraiture and bad taste. Internet flooded us with images and words of appalling banality.The same pattern repeats today. To say that “AI produces only slop” is a simple statistical error. Yes, most outputs are mediocre; but that is because most human ideas are mediocre, and most u...