I had a realization in the classroom this week that I can’t shake.
We spend so much time debating the technical capabilities of AI—parameters, tokens, context windows. We treat it like an engineering problem.
But after looking at the content consumption habits of… well, almost everyone… I realized it’s not an engineering problem. It’s a sociological one.
We are biologically wiring ourselves to prefer “slop.”
I wrote a deep dive on The Industrialization of Average over on LinkedIn, where I break down the concept of “Regression to the Mean” and why algorithms are designed to remove “friction” from our lives.
But here is the short version for my blog readers: We aren’t losing creativity because machines are “better” than us. We are losing it because we have stopped demanding it. We have become comfortable with the “Mid.”
If you are a creator, this is your wake-up call. The world doesn’t need more content. It needs more sharp edges.
