A lot of them do. Not you, but more normy types who aren't on Reddit all the time. They care about the quality of the product because that's what directly affects them
Most of the moral objections are either plagiarism or environmental.
Plagiarism is less of an issue with code, for various reasons. Not none, but certainly less.
And the environmental issues are very nuanced. The amount of AI use means the total impact is truly massive. But individual instances of it are often dramatically more efficient than the old fashioned way of doing things.
Lots more non-moral objections exist of course. But they tend to be of a piece with any time the barrier to entry to a field is lowered massively. We have a huge curation problem now. But it's not the first time. In a sense reddit is one previous answer to the curation problems the internet posed.
Now every week there is a billionaire publishing in his newspapers articles about how we gotta loose our jobs and die of thirst because his AI needs it more than us.
Then why are you on Reddit? It is certainly coded by AI development, which means that the moral failings of AI are all around us, being rewarded by the ad money you generate for them.
There’s a stark difference between having to exist in society while disliking how it’s structured and using a product for fun/leisure that you have a moral objection to.
It’s like saying a communist who wears Gucci shouldn’t be called a hypocrite because they have to participate in society so they may as well wear designer.
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u/MaddMax92 8h ago
People don't solely complain about ai slop because of quality concerns. I'm sure you know full well what their actual moral objections are.