Early AI adopters have already cycled through the hype multiple times and understand exactly where AI-generated content kills quality instead of enhancing it. They know the uncanny valley points, the cheapness signals, the spots where synthetic output just makes things worse.
Meanwhile, mainstream users are hitting their first AI wave right now. They're in that honeymoon phase: "I can generate anything! Why pay for real content?" So you see restaurant menus with grotesque AI food images that look inedible, businesses using soulless AI copy that screams generic.
Same pattern with mediocre accounts spamming AI replies and posts. Using AI doesn't magically make boring people interesting. If your output was forgettable before, slapping GPT on it changes nothing. The tool amplifies what's already there—and if that's nothing, you just get more nothing, faster.
Meanwhile, mainstream users are hitting their first AI wave right now. They're in that honeymoon phase: "I can generate anything! Why pay for real content?" So you see restaurant menus with grotesque AI food images that look inedible, businesses using soulless AI copy that screams generic.
Same pattern with mediocre accounts spamming AI replies and posts. Using AI doesn't magically make boring people interesting. If your output was forgettable before, slapping GPT on it changes nothing. The tool amplifies what's already there—and if that's nothing, you just get more nothing, faster.