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Leonard Lambert retweeted
AI is exposing an uncomfortable truth
about the creative industry:
a surprising amount
of what we called talent
was simply access.
Leonard Lambert retweeted
A man spent 30 days feeding an ant colony sugar, giving the ants a reason to slack off from their daily work.
Leonard Lambert retweeted
Slop is a quality problem, not an AI problem.
So the “AI slop” narrative is a lie.
Slop didn’t suddenly appear because AI arrived.
We had bad art. Bad movies. Bad music. Bad writing. Clickbait. Copy-paste content. Low-effort posts. All long before generative AI existed.
AI just gave people another way to create, which means we now get both incredible work and terrible work made with AI.
Just like every other creative tool.
Calling every AI creation “slop” simply because AI was involved tells me nothing about the quality of the work.
Again, Slop is a quality problem, not an AI problem.
Leonard Lambert retweeted
March 11, 2011. I still remember.
Japan was devastated. Communities were cut off without food, water, or power. Then the U.S. military came.
They delivered supplies, helped isolated islands, and worked alongside Japan to restore what the tsunami had destroyed.
Even after radioactive contamination was detected on aircraft from the USS Ronald Reagan, they kept helping us.
They knew the danger, yet they came anyway.
To me, it felt like they risked their lives to help Japan.
Operation Tomodachi……
I will never forget it.
If America ever needs us……then it’s my turn to risk my life for you, just as you did for us in 2011.
America, thank you. 🇯🇵🇺🇸
I’m Japanese.
I still remember March 11, 2011, when Japan was going through one of the darkest moments in its history.
America didn’t just watch from far away. Even knowing how dangerous it was, around 24,500 U.S. service members, 24 ships, and 189 aircraft were sent to help Japan.
Operation Tomodachi.
I don’t think I’ll ever forget those words.
When someone reaches out to you when you’re truly struggling, calling them just a “friend” somehow doesn’t feel like enough.
To me, America is family.
So if the day ever comes when America is the one going through a difficult time, I want to do everything I can, as a Japanese person, to stand by you.
I want to be able to say, “You came for us in 2011. Now it’s our turn.”
That’s how much that moment means to me.
To everyone in America, thank you. Truly.
And please remember this:
There are people in Japan who will never forget that America was there when Japan needed a friend.
