AI Slop and the Death of Creativity—Are We Dumbing Ourselves Down?

AI isn’t just automating work—it’s automating creativity. From low-quality AI-generated images to robotic corporate jargon, the internet is drowning in algorithmic monotony, and it’s making us less creative.

A Cornell study found AI-generated text now makes up a quarter of online content, infiltrating press releases, marketing, and even job postings.

AI thrives on patterns, not originality, so as more of our world is shaped by predictable, repetitive AI outputs, our ability to create truly new ideas shrinks but the opportunity of delivering something uniquely human grows .

• AI-generated content is everywhere, replacing human originality.
• Repetition kills creativity, training us to think like machines.
• Outsourcing creativity to AI risks stagnation, not innovation.

If AI generates everything, what’s left for human imagination? Are we shaping AI, or is it shaping us?

Read the full article on The New Statesman.

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