

What you say applies to slop, not anyone using AI seriously. Which is a small minority, but still.
If you put in a lot of work, you might not be the author of the realization but you are author of the concept (assuming it is not trivial). Why should you not be able to protect your ideas?
What is the status of a movie director compared to the actors?
Who is usually mentioned when discussing whether the movie was well crafted or not?
The best actor cannot save a shitty plot.



Wish I could give 100 upvotes.
Quality is quality, shit is shit. Between that there is a vast spectrum. Nothing on that spectrum is intrinsically linked to the apparently cursed property of being produced by or with help of an LLM.
One can be against LLM use for various reasons, and build communities around it, but equating AI = slop is an infantile reaction.
Sure, AI makes it easier to produce polished turds faster. But thats fault of the user, not the tool.
Otherwise we should equally ban VSCode, because everybody knows that good software is written in vim and most slop is done using VSCode. Ridiculous.