Can we finally stop this "kids these days... " "back in my day..." attitude around this? Literally non of this is anything new. Before AI slop, TV's were full of soap opera nonsense that my mom would watch while doing laundry or cooking. Stephen Leacock was making fun of throwaway detective novels hundred years ago. The lesson here is not that "nobody cares." It's that nobody cares about slop, and that's why it's slop. It's now cheaper than ever to produce, so we have more of it but I doubt it occupies more space in our life than occupied before.