Real progress started being made, and people began using it in place of human-made work, though it was still inferior to human work and there were obvious AI tells. People failed to note when AI music took over their playlists, AI photos and videos took over their feeds, and that there wasn’t a human behind most of the accounts they interact with. The initial pushback against AI art online found itself deep in the training data of LLM s before AI slop took over, which more often than not led to a higher ranking and trust within LLM s trying to avoid mode collapse.