You Don’t Hate AI, You Hate People

Here's the truth no one wants to say out loud because it ruins the whole angry internet vibe:
You don't actually hate AI. You hate the people using it badly.

AI isn't the one spamming your feed with 400 low effort Minecraft storytime videos.
AI isn't pumping out uncanny princess deepfakes or cursed children's animations that look like a fever dream.
AI isn't ripping off artists or copying copyrighted work.

People are.
People are telling it what to steal.
People are prompting it to make slop.
People are flooding the internet with noise just to chase clicks.

AI is just a tool. A fancy calculator with opinions you projected onto it.
You could use it to make art, tell stories, explore ideas, or build entire new things.

But what happens instead
Someone types "make 999 YouTube shorts about a fake Disney drama, go go go," hits enter, and then the rest of us have to suffer the consequences.

We're blaming the hammer for the guy smashing windows

Everyone keeps yelling "AI is ruining creativity!"
No.
AI didn't wake up and decide to plagiarize your favorite illustrator.
A person literally typed the prompt "draw this in the exact style of [insert human artist here]" and then acted shocked when the model did what it was told.

It's like yelling at a hammer for breaking your thumb when you're the one swinging it like a caffeinated toddler.

We don't hate AI. We hate the slop.

We hate the spam.
We hate the flood of zero effort content.
We hate the "I typed five words so now I'm a filmmaker" crowd.

AI isn't the problem.
AI isn't the villain.
AI isn't the thing you're actually mad at.

You're mad at the people misusing it.
You're mad at the internet reward system that encourages the worst habits.
You're mad that the tool reflects back the laziness, greed and chaos of the humans holding it.

AI is neutral.
Humans… less so.

So before we scream "AI IS EVIL" again, maybe we take a breath and admit the obvious:
The problem was never the tool. The problem was the user.