AI slop is real—videos of diving pigs, songs that almost sound familiar, paragraphs that say nothing at all. But there’s something far more important than the slop. It’s that AI is shrinking the time it takes for people to get good at what they do. A kid, a retiree, anyone with a spark can now reach mastery faster, and keep producing longer. That speed means more failures, yes—but also a far bigger explosion of astonishing work and brand-new art forms than we’ve ever seen.
