AI storytelling debate: aesthetic slop, or the breakdown of elite artistic authority?
DelinquentVideo · x · 2026-09-20
DelinquentVideo argues that stories made with AI by non-creatives reflect tasteless aesthetic blindness, watering culture down into lowest-common-denominator slop. Replying, iamtrask counters that the higher moral achievement is a world where everyone's stories can be told: art's craft barrier once centralized narrative power in an elite class, and AI is breaking that authority down.
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