Pro-AI poster asks anti-AI critics: is a machine doing human painting 'slop'?

charis_ai · x · 2026-11-06

A pointed jab at the #antiai crowd: if a machine is doing the work of a human painter—while the human merely adjusts the brush, lays out paper and paint and watches—how is that different from what critics call AI-generated "machine slop"? The author leans on the industrial revolution analogy, arguing that past waves of automation never destroyed jobs, so why would AI?

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