A few months ago I wrote about the Piss Average problem, a term I coined to describe the phenomenon of the Internet being filled with the average, mediocre work created by genAI until every major platform becomes saturated and poisoned by it. I named it after the literal yellowing of images generated by ChatGPT—which sadly seems to have been fixed, and most have probably forgotten about this quirk by now. I wrote that one of the biggest, existential issues with genAI is the crisis of faith—having no idea if the work you're looking at was produced by a person or an LLM. Eventually, this calcifies into a vigilant paranoia and questioning anything that's too standardized, too neat and tidy. I've gone on record saying this lack of trust is an awful way to interface with the web, creativity, and art as a whole. A compulsive, gnawing knowing. Luckily, I've found that as time goes on, this is by-and-large a non-issue in most of the Internet I inhabit. There are really only a few platforms…
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