I was reflecting this evening - as I walked past a local cafe that I haven’t been to in many months (and part of why will become evident shortly) - that recognising AI use has become a simple heuristic for “this doesn’t get any of my discretionary time”.

There’s so much of everything, all the time, now. There’s more stuff to read than I’ll ever have time to read, there are more great cafes and restaurants around than I have the excess time or money to visit them all, there are more people that want my time or attention in various roles than I’ll necessarily have sufficient time (within those roles) to devote that time or attention. So as a first-layer filter, if you present me something AI-generated, it goes to the bottom of a pile that will never be exhumed.

The cafe - although we went there a couple of times since it opened under yet another new name and ownership - now has AI-generated art in the window (and tonight I noticed an AI-generated poster in the door). I just won’t go to that cafe any more - because there are plenty of places that *don’t* have AI-generated art in their windows.